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On January 1, 1873, ground work began on the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock Township. It has been estimated that the plant was built for about $1.2 million. The mill was built by Alexander Lyman Holley, who found a manager to run the mill, Captain Bill Jones, a Civil War veteran. On August 22, 1875, the Edgar Thomson Steel Works' hulking ...
The mill was built in 1690 by William Rittenhouse and his son Nicholas on the north bank of Paper Mill Run (Monoshone Creek) near (and now within) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The district, off Lincoln Drive near Wissahickon Avenue in Fairmount Park , includes six of up to forty-five original buildings.
Although the mill no longer sold flour, "a post-Revolutionary War era water wheel turned by a race stream siphoned from the Manatawny still provide[d] most of the power to operate the mill." [ 7 ] Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, [ 1 ] the Pottstown Roller Mills, Inc. survives today at 625 Industrial Highway, less than ...
The Mill at Anselma (a.k.a. Lightfoot Mill) is an archetypal small, 18th-century custom grain mill in Anselma, outside Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. It is probably the only surviving one in the United States with an intact colonial-era power transmission system.
The Jacksons Mill Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at East Providence Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It is a 91-foot-long (28 m), Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1889. It crosses Brush Creek. It is one of 15 historic covered bridges in Bedford County. [2]
The Continental Powder Works at French Creek is a historic gunpowder manufacturing complex in East Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.Constructed on French Creek in early 1776 and intended to supply the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the mill was the only powder mill and gun factory commissioned by the Continental Congress.
On June 4, 2020, JCPenney announced that it would close its store at Pittsburgh Mills by around October 2020 as part of a plan to close 154 stores nationwide. [19] Champs Sports and Claire's closed in 2022. Macy's, Jo-Ann Fabrics, and Dick's Sporting Goods are currently the only anchor stores left.
Fetter's Mill Rd. and Pennypack Ln., Bryn Athyn and Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania Coordinates 40°7′55″N 75°4′18″W / 40.13194°N 75.07167°W / 40.13194; -75