Hunter's Mill Complex

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Hunter's Mill Complex
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LocationForgedale Road, Hereford Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°25′41″N75°37′15″W / 40.42806°N 75.62083°W / 40.42806; -75.62083
Area11 acres (4.5 ha)
Built1792-1793, 1794
Architectural styleGeorgian, Federal
NRHP reference No. 88003045 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 22, 1988

The Hunter's Mill Complex, also known as Rush's Mill, is an historic grist mill complex which is located on a rise above Perkiomen Creek in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

History and architectural features

The complex consists of a three-story mill that built roughly between 1792 and 1793, a two-and-one-half-story, five-bay, Federal-style, stone dwelling that was built in 1794, a mid-nineteenth century, stone and frame, Pennsylvania bank barn, two one-and-one-half-story stone summer kitchens, and a late eighteenth-century stone walled garden. The mill measures forty-five feet by thirty-six feet. The house has a Georgian floor plan and measures forty-five feet by forty-five feet. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Holly K. Green and Jerry Clouse (September 1988). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania SP Hunter's Mill Complex. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 9, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)