Long-Hawerter Mill

Long-Hawerter Mill

Long-Hawerter Mill, December 2012
Location Longsdale Road at Little Lehigh Creek, Longswamp Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°29′21″N 75°39′50″W / 40.48917°N 75.66389°W / 40.48917; -75.66389Coordinates: 40°29′21″N 75°39′50″W / 40.48917°N 75.66389°W / 40.48917; -75.66389
Area 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built c. 1800
Architectural style Other, Gristmill
MPS Gristmills in Berks County MPS
NRHP Reference # 90001623[1]
Added to NRHP November 8, 1990

Long-Hawerter Mill is a historic grist mill located on Little Lehigh Creek in Longswamp Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The mill was built about 1800, and is a 1 1/2-story banked stone building measuring 36 feet, 5 inches, wide by 26 feet, 1 inch, deep, with a slate roof. Attached to it is a one-story, frame cider mill and one-story, frame maple sugar house. Also on the property are the watercourses, consisting of the headrace, pond, and dam. The mill operated into the 1950s.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Louise Emery (June 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Long-Hawerter Mill" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-08-22.


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