Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morris Mill, Delaware

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The result was delete. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:36, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Morris Mill, Delaware

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This one is quite a puzzle due to the testimony of the topos and aerials. There was definitely a mill here: the pond is still there. What it milled, I can't find out, but what is peculiar is that it seems to grow into a sizeable complex if apparently industrial buildings. But sometime between the mid 1950s and 1980 everything changes: a large building appears on the south side of the road across from the old mill area, almost all of whose buildings disappear; meanwhile, a tight group of mobile homes appears on the far end of the mill dam. Most of the latter are gone by around 2000, and they are all gone now; on the west side, one barn-ish building remains at the mill site, along with a modern house, and the large building still seems to house some enterprise. And that is all I can find out, as Delaware Place Names labels the whole thing a locality, and searching is heavily masked by the development just to the west, and tends otherwise to bring up info on the pond. At this point I have no basis for notability, but it's not unlikely I've missed something. Mangoe (talk) 03:27, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 03:37, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 03:37, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Google maps. I'm presuming the article is actually referring to the small community to on the west bank of the pond (apparently called the Estates of Morris Mill). If we had information on who was Morris and what did he mill, this would be a wildly different situation; however, with the information that exists, this is clearly non-notable, per WP:GEOLAND and WP:GNG. Curbon7 (talk) 05:09, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I agree with Hog Farm's excellent assessment. Topo maps commonly showed landmarks such as mills, and the "Locality" label in Delaware Place Names confirms that's what this was. –dlthewave ☎ 12:12, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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