Great Old Mill Site

[baspinall]

Here is a great site for info on old mills in lots of different counties in PA. Also other states listed, but PA has so many more mills. Tells you what is there now, if it's been restored or still in ruins. If you get permission somewhere near Chester County you have to invite me

http://www.millpictures.com/Mills/bystate.cfm?state=Pennsylvania

Brian

 

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[jeff of pa]

Cool Site Brian

My Grandmother used to live in this one in Valley View in the White House.
60's I Believe

She married a Paul Romberger.
Mill was always known as Rombergers Mill

I used to love exploring the mill.
There is a Big old tree to the left of the mill
along the creek & a Grove of apple trees etc. to the right of the house.
I got one of my first tastes of Detecting there with my gradndmothers
$19.00 detector, but was too green to do it right.

http://www.millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1087



Place is now set up as

PRESERVE: ROMBERGER MILL PARTNERS

 

[Don in SJ]

Years ago my genealogy research of my Pennsylvania ancestors had really opened my eyes to how much they were a part of colonial times that I never knew until I started my research. In keeping with the looking for old mills, here is an excerpt that I have on one of my earliest ancestors to arrive in colonial times. Another of my grandfathers, this one was my 6th Great Grandfather from my Dad's mother's side.

Johann Frederick Hillegass -1685-1765 - Farmer/Grist Mill owner

Johann Frederick settled in what is now Upper Hanover Township,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and what as known as the "Goshenhoppen"
area. Prior to 1774 he took up a tract of one hundred and fifty acres. He
became a large landowner there farming considerable acreage as well as
running a Grist Mill which supplied flour to the Revolutionary War cause.
The following deals with the sale of the mill to Johann Frederick:

"The next mill of importance on the Perkiomen, known as 'FIRST GRIST MILL
ON THE UPPER PERKIOMEN' is best known in History as the Hillegass mill,
and best recalled by deed written in the presence of Ludwig Bitting,
Peter Walstein, George Croner, and George Shenk, which was in possession
of the late Philip Super, a well known justice of the peace of Upper
Hanover Township, Montgomery County. It bears the date of February 6,
1738 and conveys from George Froner to Frederick Hillegass the Hillegass
mill for 150 pounds and one wagon, beside a crow bar, two hatchets, a
broad axe, a half bushel measure, and 2 hogshead an 'all things nailed
fast'. Just at what period the mill was erected on the site is unknown,
but it was before 1738. The original millstones and other machinery were
imported from Germany nearly 2 centuries ago, and it took nearly a year
to transport them. James Overly, who moved from Westmoreland County,
today owns the mill. Nearby is another Hillegass mill which has been in
the possession of the family since 1800.

Since Jeff's posts have picqued my interest in the old farms again, I am starting a little project of listing all the possible farms of my ancestors and then map out all the locations along with accompanying data about each one. Not sure how many different farms but I suspect more than dozen.

Don

 

[mike in pa]

GREAT SITE THANKS BRIAN!!!