| The Village Of Spring Mills |
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In addition to its two mills, post office, stores and residences, Spring Mills also once boasted a saloon operated by James Beaumont, a wagon shop, and blacksmith shops run by Enos Leek, Peter Kunkel and Wilhelm Huff. In the end, however, the water power available at Spring Mills could not compete with the ease of transportation afforded by the railroad built one-half mile to the west. Thus, on January 1, 1874, the Spring Mills post office was closed and moved to the new village of Highland Station. The closing of the cider and vinegar mill in 1902, the construction of M-59 through the heart of Spring Mills in the late 1930's, and the demise of the grist mill in 1943, spelled the end of the village. Most today know "Spring Mills" only as an elementary school on Harvey Lake Road; ironically located more than a mile north of the community from which it takes its name.
