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It was in use as a mill until 1930, and housed an Oliver Evans milling system. [2] The Evans-Mumbower Mill is now owned by the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association, and is open for public tours and demonstrations once a month. This mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1]
The buildings include a small barn, the stone grist mill (destroyed), and three stone or brick vernacular houses. The mill is a three-story, five level stone building with a slate covered gambrel roof. The most prominent structure is an iron pratt truss bridge built in 1867, and known as County Bridge #16. [2] The mill was destroyed by fire. [3]
Fallingwater. The township is in northeastern Fayette County, bordered to the east by Somerset County.According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 59.6 square miles (154.4 km 2), of which 59.4 square miles (153.9 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.6 km 2), or 0.38%, is water. [3]
The contributing structure consists of the mill pond, dam, head race, and tail race. The Jervis Gordon Grist Mill consists of the original two-story structure that was built in 1882, with a shed addition that was erected in 1904, a rear enclosure covering the water wheel, and a machine shop addition that dates roughly to 1908. The mill includes ...
This complex consists of a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, stone banked mill with tin roof (1854), a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, stone Georgian-style manor house (1767), a large stone and frame barn with banked earth ramp (c. 1850), a one-story smokehouse with slate roof (c. 1767), a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stone summer kitchen (c. 1767), a clapboarded, frame privy (c. 1939), a storage shed (c. 1939), and the millraces ...
The property also includes a mill dam that was reconstructed in 1891, a mill race, and a stone arch bridge that was built circa 1845. [ 2 ] The property was later owned by Dr. Chevalier Jackson (1865-1958), an internationally known physician and specialist in laryngology , who lived at Sunrise from 1919 until his death in 1958.
The mill now a part of the York County Parks system was placed on the Pennsylvania Inventory of Historic Places on February 24, 1977 and the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 1977. The owner Harry Cross gave the mill to the County of York in 1979. A major renovation of the building, both inside and out, was undertaken by York ...