The Allstadt House and Ordinary was built about 1790 on land owned by the Lee family near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, including Phillip Ludwell Lee, Richard Bland Lee and Henry Lee III. The house at the crossroads was sold to the Jacob Allstadt family of Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1811. Allstadt operated an ordinary in the house, and a tollgate on the Harpers Ferry-Charles Town Turnpike, while he resided farther down the road in a stone house. The house was enlarged by the Allstadts c. 1830. The house remained in the family until the death of John Thomas Allstadt in 1923, the last survivor of John Brown's Raid.
Nicodemus Mill Complex is a historic home and mill complex located at Keedysville, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It consists of a dated 1810 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay stone house with a mid-19th-century brick service wing, the ruins of a grist mill built about 1829, and an extensive complement of 19th-century domestic and agricultural outbuildings including a stone springhouse, stone-end bank barn, brick out kitchen, frame wash house, and a stuccoed stone secondary dwelling. It is an intact representative example of the type of farmstead characteristic of the region during the 19th century.
Donegal Mills Plantation is a historic grist mill complex located at East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of the mill, mansion, miller's house, and bake house. The mill was built in 1775, and is a three-story building. The original section of mansion was built before 1790, and is a two-story, stuccoed stone building with a gable roof. The mansion was expanded about 1820, with a frame kitchen wing, and about 1830, with a stone two-story addition. It features a full length, two-story, porch supported by five brick and stucco columns. The miller's house was originally built about, and is a 3 1/2-story, stuccoed stone building with a gable roof. It was expanded to its present size about 1830. The bake house is a two-story, gable roofed frame building. The property was auctioned in May 2010.
The Swatara Furnace is a historic iron furnace and 200-acre national historic district located along Mill Creek, a tributary of the Swatara Creek in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
Weidner Mill is a historic grist mill complex located on Manatawny Creek in Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of the 2+1⁄2-story stone-and-brick banked mill (1855); 2+1⁄2-story, stucco-over-stone farmhouse ; 1+1⁄2-story, stucco-over-stone, combined smokehouse and spring house ; 2+1⁄2-story, stucco-over-stone tenant house ; stucco-over-stone bank barn ; and the millrace and dam. The mill ceased operation in the 1940s. The mill was built as part of a working farm.
Bahr Mill Complex is a historic grist mill complex located in Colebrookdale Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The complex includes the 2-story, plus basement, banked stone mill (1897); 2 2/2-story, stucco over stone farmhouse ; 1-story, brick smokehouse ; banked frame sawmill with a stone foundation ; 2-story, stucco over stone store ; two sheds ; a shoemaker's shop ; outhouse ; stone bank barn ; and frame garage. Also on the property are a contributing chicken house and pig sty. It is a family-run mill complex, run by the Gable family for over 175 years.
Kutz Mill is a historic grist mill complex located on Sacony Creek in Greenwich Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It is adjacent to the Kutz's Mill Bridge. The complex includes the 1 1/2-story, stone mill ; brick farmhouse (1855); 1 1/2-story, stone summer kitchen; stone and frame Pennsylvania German bank barn; and three frame outbuildings. The mill is representative of a country custom mill and built as part of a working farm.
Hain Mill, also known as Wernersville Mill, is a historic grist mill complex located in Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The merchant mill complex includes the 2 1/2-story stone mill building (1798); stone farmhouse / miller's house (1782); two-story, stone and frame barn; frame toolshed; frame woodshed; and frame outhouse. The mill ceased operation prior to 1961.
Mill at Lobachsville is a historic grist mill complex located in Pike Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of the three-story, stone-and-frame banked mill with corrugated steel gable roof (1887); 2+1⁄2-story, stone-and-frame farmhouse ; 2+1⁄2-story, stone settler's cabin dated to the 18th century; one-story, frame summer kitchen; one-story, frame ice house; one-story, frame wagon shed; two-story, stone-and-frame barn (1814); one seat privy; stone-and-frame pig sty; and the millraces and pond. The mill ceased operation in 1965. The custom mill was built as part of a working farm.
Yoder Mill, also known as Renninger Mill, is a historic grist mill located in Pike Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The mill was built in 1796, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, frame building measuring 41 feet by 50 feet. It sits on a stone basement. It was rebuilt in 1885 after a fire. Also on the property is a contributing 2+1⁄2-story, stuccoed stone miller's house the headrace and millpond. The merchant mill ceased operation in the 1940s.
Merkel Mill Complex is a historic grist mill complex located in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of the 2+1⁄2-story, stone banked mill with tin roof (1854); 2+1⁄2-story, stone Georgian-style manor house (1767); large stone and frame barn with banked earth ramp ; one-story smokehouse with slate roof ; 1+1⁄2-story stone summer kitchen ; clapboarded frame privy ; storage shed ; and the millraces, dam, and pond. The mill ceased operation about 1939. The mill was built as part of a working farm.
Griesemer's Mill Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Oley Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania. It is a 124-foot-long (38 m), Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1832. It has a gable roof and stone abutments. It crosses the Manatawny Creek. It is one of five covered bridges remaining in Berks County.
Sally Ann Furnace Complex is a historic iron furnace complex site located at Rockland Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It includes the remains of furnace, barns, stable, storage sheds, grist mill, and bake ovens. The furnace was built in 1791 along Sacony Creek and once stood 32 feet high. Adjacent to the mill is a 1 1/2-story stone dwelling built in 1798. In 1814, a 2 1/2-story rectangular, stuccoed stone mansion house was added. It is five bays by two bays, and has a gable roof with dormers. Also on the property is a 1 1/2-story, stone company store and storekeeper's residence, and 2 1/2-story stuccoed stone granary.
Hunter's Mill Complex, also known as Rush's Mill, is a historic grist mill complex located on a rise above Perkiomen Creek in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of a three-story mill built about 1792-1793; 2 1/2-story, five bay Federal style stone dwelling built in 1794, mid-19th century stone and frame Pennsylvania bank barn; two 1 1/2-story stone summer kitchens; and a late 18th-century stone walled garden. The mill measures 45 feet by 36 feet. The house has a Georgian floor plan and measures 45 feet by 45 feet.
Mill Tract Farm, also known as the George Boone Homestead, is a historic house and farm complex located in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The original section of the house was built about 1750, with a western addition built about 1790 and rear additions completed between 1790 and 1820. It is a two-story, five-bay, L-shaped fieldstone dwelling in the Georgian style. Also on the property are a 2+1⁄2-story, stone grist mill ; early-19th-century, 2+1⁄2-story, fieldstone tenant house; large, late-18th-century stone-and-frame barn; stone pig pen; and two-story, stone horse barn. The grist mill was purportedly built by George Boone, III, grandfather of frontiersman Daniel Boone, who received the original land grant.
Lenhart Farm is a historic house and farm complex located in Lenhartsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The house was built by about 1830, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, brownstone dwelling in the Georgian style. Also on the property are a stone and frame bank barn (1841), springhouse, carriage house, and a number of farm-related outbuildings.
Rieser–Shoemaker Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has seven contributing 'buildings' and two contributing 'structures'. They are a 2 1/2-story, vernacular Federal brick farmhouse ; stone Pennsylvania bank barn ; a group of stone, brick, and frame outbuildings ; and a stone walled spring. The original land grant to Henry Reiser was in 1725. The farm is 'located' approximately 1/4-mile from the Rieser Mill.
The Kissling Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Robesonia, Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Grand View Dairy Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in South Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has eight contributing buildings and four contributing structures. They are a 2 1/2-story, log and frame farmhouse on a stone foundation ; frame summer kitchen ; smokehouse; butcher shop; stone and frame dairy barn ; bull barn ; and two frame sheds. The contributing structures are two frame corn cribs, ground cellar, and frame pig pen.
The Hopewell Farm, also known as Lower Farm and Hopedell Farm, is a historic home and farm located at 1751 Valley Road in Valley Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The 500-acre farm complex has six contributing buildings, one contributing site, and six contributing structures. The buildings and property were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
