Tag Archives: Mills Stoffel Wagner built this Mill in 1767 and several generations of the Wagner family operated it over the span of 200 years. The Mill is located on West Walnut Street just off of Route 412 in Lower Saucon Township which is near Hellertown, PA in Northampton County. The Hellertown Historical Society uses the Miller’s house,...  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...  Bromley Mill near New Hope, PA. Nikon D300 with a Nikon 28-70mm F2.8 AFS lens, manual focus, hand held, aperture priority mode, exposure bracketing for three brackets at 2 stops variance @ F9, ISO 640. HDR and tone map post-processing completed with NIK HDR Efex Pro.  The Rothville Mill was built in 1793 by Johannes Pfoutz. It replaced an earlier mill on the same location that had been built in 1786. Pfoutz and his Sons owned the mill through 1814. In 1814 Peter Hall purchased the mill and operated it until 1824 when he sold it to Henry Becker. The Becker...  The Londonvale Mill was built in 1787 by Jacob Eshleman. It operated as a working flour and grist mill in the Eshleman family until 1839. It was powered by an overshot wheel and had a capacity of about 10 barrels of flour per day. The mill replaced an earlier mill on the same spot that...  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 mill, located at the junction of Frystown and Crosskill Creek roads in Bethel Township, was built in 1891 and replaced an earlier mill on the same location that had been built in 1756. A post office established in the mill in 1848 caused the mill & community to be known as “Crosskill Mill” after... |
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