File:Mount Pleasant Grist Mill, Warwick Furnace and County Park Roads, Saint Peters, Chester County, PA HAER PA,15-SAPE.V,1- (sheet 25 of 25).tif

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HAER PA,15-SAPE.V,1- (sheet 25 of 25) - Mount Pleasant Grist Mill, Warwick Furnace and County Park Roads, Saint Peters, Chester County, PA
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HAER PA,15-SAPE.V,1- (sheet 25 of 25) - Mount Pleasant Grist Mill, Warwick Furnace and County Park Roads, Saint Peters, Chester County, PA
Description
Knauer, Christopher; Miller, John; Dunlap, Isaac; Knauer, Jonathan; Knauer, Franklin; Knauer, Emma; Knauer, Estelle; Haines, Jerome; Cremers, Estelle, field team; Bowie, John R, delineator
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Chester County; Saint Peters
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 19 x 24 in. (B size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,15-SAPE.V,1- (sheet 25 of 25)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Christopher Knauer had his Mount Pleasant Grist Mill built along the South Branch of French Creek ca. 1805 as a replacement to an earlier mill built by Henry Hockley in the 1730s. Knauer's impressive stone structure was twice the size of Hockley's and later made so that the miller could operate the hydraulic controls and machinery and also monitor grain movement from the first floor. Along with this consolidation of control, the first floor was subsequently built on one continuous elevation, since travel to the basement to adjust the machines was reduced...
  • Survey number: HAER PA-104
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1805 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1928 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1965 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1750.sheet.00025a
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Object location40° 10′ 48″ N, 75° 43′ 52″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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