Tag Archives: Historic-Buildings The Haines mill was built by John George Knauss in 1760 on land he purchased from his Father In-law Joseph Bishop. Bishop had aquired the land from William Penn’s sons, Thomas and Richard in 1738. The Knauss family operated the mill until 1853. Solomon Lichenwalner took over the mill in 1867, and then sold it...  The Wenger Mill was built in 1785 and replaced an earlier 1748 Mill that was destroyed in a fire. The Ephrata Cloister, a local religious group of German settlers, built the four story tall mill and continued to operate it through the 1850′s. After the Ephrata Cloister, ownership passed to P. W. Royer in 1864,...  This one-room schoolhouse was built in 1892 and classes were held here up until 1952. It was superseded by the building of a new Green Park Union High School in 1953. The Historical Society of Perry County owns and maintains the schoolhouse and took ownership in 1970 from the West Perry School District. The building...  This is the renovated one room school house in the tiny village of Stillwater Pennsylvania which resides along route 487 in Columbia County Pennsylvania. The school house was renovated and re-sided within the last few years. It is located right next to the Stillwater Covered Bridge. According to the year 2000 census, the population of...  This one-room schoolhouse was named after Lindley Murray who was a famous grammarian and textbook author who was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania in 1745 and later forced to flee the colonies after the Revolutionary War because he was loyal to the English Monarchy. Murray’s textbooks sold an estimated sixteen million copies in America and...  This bridge was built in 1887 and is located on Erb’s Bridge Road in Rothsville, PA, a remote farming community in Lancaster County. It crosses the Hammer Creek at a length of 80 feet and utilizes the Burr-Arch design in its construction. The bridge is open to daily vehicular traffic and is in great shape....  This mill was built in 1820 and was most active between 1820 and 1860. There was a saw mill attached to the right of the grist mill. The grist mill portion occupies a footprint of about 32′X 40′. The mill was fed by the waters of the Mill Creek which is an offshoot of the... |
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