Embreeville Historic District

Embreeville Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Embreeville Historic District, October 2011
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Location	Rt. 162, Newlin Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°53′42″N75°44′09″W / 39.89500°N 75.73583°W / 39.89500; -75.73583
Area	65 acres (26 ha)
Architect	Multiple
MPS	West Branch Brandywine Creek MRA
NRHP reference No.	85002350 [1]
Added to NRHP	September 16, 1985

Embreeville Historic District is a national historic district located in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings along the east and west banks of the West Branch Brandywine Creek in the village of Embreeville. It includes a variety of vernacular, banked, stuccoed stone buildings. They were largely built between about 1822 and 1842, with the earliest house built about 1760. The buildings include a farmhouse, a country store, a storekeeper's house, a blacksmith's house, a wheelwright's house and store, a grist mill known as the Embreeville Mill, a "mansion" (1856), and miller's house. ^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. ^[1]

Gallery

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  Embreeville Mill, December 2009
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  <Embreeville Mill, 2016>

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Martha Leigh Wolf (December 1984). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania MPS Embreeville Historic District. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 15, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)