This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQB.2ACE/1148.1 Message Board Post: Hello Dolores, Your post caught my attention, since I live about 2 miles from Hoffmans Mill. I have a small book or magazine that was published in 1976 about Belleplain and it mentions Hoffmans Mill. This is what it has written about Hoffmans Mill: Hoffmans Mill (site), This is some distance from Belleplain, but evidently people from Belleplain worked there in the old days. I believe Joe Mason or his relatives had a mill there. Seems in later years a sawdust pile fire burned down there a long time before it could be put out. How the location got it's name , I do not know. Joe Mason told me it was not named from any of the Hoffmans living in Belleplain. I have heard it was an early Swedish name from the early settlers. I believe Mason mentioned members of the camp family living near the mill. Hoffman's Mill burned down in 1907. Just thought I would share that little peice of info with you. Dale