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Long-Hawerter Mill
Long-Hawerter Mill, December 2012
Long-Hawerter Mill is located in Pennsylvania
Long-Hawerter Mill
LocationLongsdale Road at Little Lehigh Creek, Longswamp Township, Pennsylvania
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Builtc. 1800
Architectural styleOther, Gristmill
MPSGristmills in Berks County MPS
NRHP reference No.90001623[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 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]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Louise Emery (June 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Long-Hawerter Mill" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-08-22.