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Eakles Mill (also known as Eakles Mills) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Washington County, Maryland.

The village is a remnant of a typical 19th-century rural farm community, once surrounded by the farms and orchards that employed local labor before mechanization.

Eakles Mill originated on lands settled in the 1760s by German immigrants Conrad Snively and Andrew Putman; Putman bought a tract called 'Partnership' from Josiah Chapline, whose father Moses Chapline had been the area's original settler in the 1740s.

The village grew in importance in the 1870s with the arrival of the Hagerstown branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which served the community until rail operations ended in the 1970s.

In 1877 Jeremiah Snyder founded a Sunday school in the village schoolhouse, which grew into the Eakle's Mill United Brethren Church in 1887; the Keedy family graveyard lies behind the now-abandoned church.

During the 1850s the Jacob Snively farm at Eakle's Mill served as a base of operations for Thomas Henry, a circuit-riding minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

The anti-slavery United Brethren faith dominant in the area is thought to have helped enable a sizable free African American population in the surrounding countryside decades before the Civil War.

The historic Snively Farm at Eakles Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Once home to a mill, a store, a school and a church, the village today has no public entities left.

The 2020 census counted just 26 residents in the Eakles Mill CDP, which covers 0.085 square miles about a mile and a half south of Keedysville; the census counted only 12 housing units in the CDP.