1820s: Michael Beck Sr. builds a small dam across the creek near the lower end of "The Glens" and does some custom sawing with his little saw mill. 1840: Isaac Aultman buy 40 acres of land and builds saw mill, grist mill, and wool mill. 1843: Isaac Aultman's son George marries Margaret Conrad on 5/11. Margaret's father John Jacob Conrad dies 7/24 at the age of 68. Her inheritance doesn't become valid until 1852??? 1849: Michael Beck constructs a mill race leading down into the village of Beck's Mills and erects a four story grist mill there. 1850: Aultman's Mills rated the largest one-family enterprise in the Upper Muskingun Valley. 1851: Isaac Aultman's wife Nancy (Wallick) dies at age 52. 1852: George purchases the grist mill of the Conrad Brothers. 1854: Isaac Aultman marries Elizabeth Holser 8/15. His son John and wife Anna (Assire) move to Indiana. 1855: Daniel Beck dies 4/6 at the age of 36 after having his chest crushed by logs in the mill stream :^( 1859: Daniel Beck's wife Sarah (Fair) dies 11/24 at the age of 34 of "palsy" 1862: Isaac Aultman sells wool mill to his son, George, who razes the building and moves it with all the equipment five miles down the valley between Beck's Mills and Bloomfield (Clark). The grist and saw mills are sold to Yoder & Eash. ????: Isaac Aultman moves to Indiana. 1864: Conrad grist mill burns down, new wool mill built by George. This mill stood till 1999-2001. 1864: Benjamin Beck buys Aultman Hollow grist mill from Yoder and Eash and removes the grist mill equipment, not the building, to his mill at Beck's Mills, and later installs wool mill equipment in the original grist mill building. This building was demolished around 1915. 1869: Benjamin Beck sells the mill to Franklin Fisher, who soon after takes in Simon D. Troyer as his partner. 1872: Daniel Beck's son John marries George Aultman's daughter Mary Jane and moves to Michigan. 1873: Simon Troyer assumes entire control of the wool mill. 1876: Michael Beck dies 1/ 1 at age 83 in Holmes Co, OH Isaac Aultman dies 4/21 at age 74 in St. Joseph Co, IN 1908: George R. Aultman dies at age 85. 1911: George R. Aultman's wife Margaret (Peggy) (Conrad) dies at age 89. 1913: Dam supplying power to Troyer Mill breaks during heavy rain. 1915: Simon Troyer dies. Medina Oil & Gas Company buys the wool mill property, premises and all, builds a new dam to replace the one built about 80 years before and ruined by the 1913 flood, and tears down the old mill and uses the lumber to build cottages on the west side of Doughty Creek for a recreation park which proves unsuccessful. 1924: Article by Albert A. Aultman in the 2/24 "Holmes County Farmer" 1920s?: The oil company sells the property to Dr. Pomerene and leaves the area. Dr. Pomerene later sells the property to the local residents. 1935: Another flood damages the few houses left in the area, and it is abandoned for 20 years. 1950: Harry C. Logsdon writes "The Silent Streams" 1950s: Orie Oswald restores Troyer's Hollow 1961: Mr. & Mrs. John Miller buy remnants of Aultman farm, including the mill and equipment. 1967: Floyd Aultman compiles George R. Aultman booklet. 1974-77: Articles by Clarence Troyer 1999: Aultman Mill still standing per http://fpw.isoc.net/KREK/Holmes_Altman_Mill_Page.htm 2000?: Aultman Mill collapses and/or is demolished, leaving no trace :^( I sure hope the equipment in it was preserved somewhere...