McCosh Mill

Built in the early 1870s by James Eichelburger McCosh, this grist mill ground corn and wheat for area farms on Wehadkee Creek until it closed in 1958; the wood-frame structure later burned, leaving only its stone foundation and mill race, now part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' West Point Lake property. Local legend, repeated for decades but never documented as an actual case, holds that a 19th-century owner discovered his wife's affair and killed her and her lover at the mill. Visitors describe a woman in white drifting near the ruins, along with screams and a male apparition said to be the murdered lover, still wandering the surrounding woods.