Mill Details

Kenworthy Woolen Mill

Chester Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: u/k
Township: Valley Twp.
Watersource: Rock Run.
Location / Directions

Kenworthy Woolen Mill

Take Pa 82 north from Coatesville to the junction with Pa 340. Go west on Pa 340 about 1 mile to Wagontown Rd. and turn left (south), and go 1.3 miles to the mill on the left. The roof will be visible first. The mill sits down over a hill on private property.

Verse for Thought
"If your enemies are hungry, give them something to eat. And if they are thirsty, give them something to drink."
({Psalm 25:21 CEV})
Kenworthy Woolen Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/16/2009

The woolen mill is an eight bay, 3.5 story, stone mill with a five bay, 2 story addition.

Kenworthy Woolen Mill
Robert T.Kinsey 01/16/2009

The larger section of the mill with the miller's house on the right.

Kenworthy Woolen Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/16/2009

The addition or part of the original that has been altered, a section of wood frame replacing some stone.

Kenworthy Woolen Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/16/2009

The mill end from the driveway entrance into the mill complex.

Kenworthy Woolen Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/16/2009

The Wagontown Road side of the mill from ground level.

Kenworthy Woolen Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/16/2009

Probably the millwright's maintanence shop for the mill.

Kenworthy Woolen Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/16/2009

The miller's house. There were probably other workers housing nearby originally.

Kenworthy Woolen Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/16/2009

The typical freight hoist and vertical doors on the high end of the mill. The mill seems to have been recently converted to an apartment complex. No more is known at present of the mills history.

 
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