Long-Hawerter Mill
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Long-Hawerter Mill
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Long-Hawerter Mill, December 2012
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Location | Longsdale Road at Little Lehigh Creek, Longswamp Township, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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]
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Categories:
- Grinding mills in Berks County, Pennsylvania
- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Industrial buildings completed in 1800
- National Register of Historic Places in Berks County, Pennsylvania
- Berks County, Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs