Mill Details

Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill

Northampton Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: 1810
Township: WilliamsTwp.
Watersource: Small trib. to Lehigh River
Location / Directions

Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill

On Old Philadelphia Rd.(Old U.S. 611/SRR 48008) go three miles south of Easton, Pa. and turn right onto Morvale Rd. for 1.5 miles, then left on Wottring Mill Road. The mill is on the corner of Morvale Rd. and Wottring Mill Rd. below road level.




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Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill
Jim Miller 10/16/92

Native fieldstone mill, 35'x45' and 2.5 stories tall. Has been converted to a pvt. residence. Date of 18W W10 is painted on catshead. Wilhelm Wotring built the mill in 1810. Wotring is apparently the old world spelling of the Americanized Wottring name.

Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

An internal fireplace on the wheel end was built on the second story/main floor of stones that fell from a wall that attached to the roadside south corner of the mill and ran east providing bracing for the roadbed. The penstock bringing water to the wheel ran under the roadbed from the millpond across the road.

Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

The south end of the mill is where the steel waterwheel was positioned. The wheel was removed sometime around World War II.

Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

A painting of the mill with the overshot waterwheel was done from an old picture by M. Eichner.

Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

A wooden auger for a flour dresser hangs along a massive beam hand hewn with an adze, above the living room area of the residence.

Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

A grinding stone set is located on the main floor of the residence. The nether stone is still encased in its wooden structure, while the upper stone that could turn, and through which wheat and/or corn was fed down the center hole, is exposed to view.

Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

The mill property barn sits right on the corner of Morvale Road and Wottring Mill Road.

Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

The miller's house is on the northeast side of Morvale Road almost at the junction with Wottring Mill Road. The mill pond was to the left behind the house.

Wottring Mill / Wotring Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

A parting view of Wottring Mill. A view from Morvale Road heading north just past the barn and the junction to the left with Wottring Mill Rd.GPS: 40D 39.61'N, 75D 13.61'W ele 285'/87 meters Easton Quadrangle

 
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