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Roughly bounded by Edgewood Avenue, the Windsor Township line, a Maryland and Pennsylvania line, Chestnut Road, Country Club Road, and the York Township line 39°53′55″N 76°36′35″W / 39.898611°N 76.609722°W / 39.898611; -76.609722 ( Red Lion Borough Historic
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.
english: a gun powder mill was established here in 1776 but lasted onlt about 9 months because after the loss at the battle of brandywine washington ordered all the materials moved further west to hummelstown. several days later a troop of hessians arrived and destroyed the entire complex.
MISHAWAKA — The second phase of The Mill apartment complexes has begun in Ironworks Plaza, a development that will bring 226 apartments, commercial space and 442 parking spaces to downtown ...
They were the DuPont mill, the Hazard Powder Company of Hazardville, Connecticut, the Oriental Powder Company of Windham, Maine, and the Laflin Powder Company of Newburgh, New York. [5] The Confederate Powderworks of Augusta, Georgia produced 6,000 tonnes of gunpowder from 1862 to 1865, but was dismantled after the war. [ 6 ]
York's Golden Plough Tavern Commemorative stamp (1977) York in 1930 from the north. York was also known as Yorktown in the mid-18th to early 19th centuries. It was founded in 1741 by settlers from the Philadelphia region and named for the English city of the same name. By 1777, most of the area residents were of German or Scots-Irish descent. [7]
Built shortly after 1800 on the banks of Cobbs Creek, by Israel Whelen, Jr., the hall was the residence of the master of the Nitre Hall Powder Mills, which has long since been torn down. With the ground floor reserved for custodians, the upper two floors are decorated in Empire and Victorian style.
Diamond Silk Mill, also known as York Silk Manufacturing Company, is a historic silk mill located at Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect John A. Dempwolf and built about 1900. The mill is a 3 1/2-story, brick building with heavy timber frame trussing on a stone foundation, and measures 50 feet by 300 ...