Mill Details

Wehr's Mill site

Lehigh Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: 1862-1951
Township: South Whitehall Twp.
Watersource: Jordan Creek.
Location / Directions

Wehr's Mill site

Exit Pa 309 about 3 miles north of US 22 onto Lime Kiln Road. Go about 0.7 mile and turn right onto Wehr Mill Road and continue to the mill site at the north end of the Wehr Mill Covered Bridge at Wehr Mill Road and River Road.




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Wehr's Mill site
Jim Miller 09/27/2011

The mill-owner's house on the north side of the dam and behind the former mill site from the road. The mill was built ion 1862 by Ephriam Sieger. For a time, the already-in-place covered bridge was known as Sieger's Covered Bridge.

Wehr's Mill site
Unknown-c. 1940's

Photo of the former mill, probably from the 1930's or 1940's. The miller's house is visible to the right of the mill, now across the road from the mill site, on the NE corner of River Road and Wehr's Mill Road. The mill became known as Wehr's Bridge after the mill was sold to William Wehr. The mill came down in 1951, the reason not known at present.

Wehr's Mill site
Jim Miller 09/27/2011

The mill dam in 2011, taken from the spot of the mill looking south. The concrete dam relpaced a wooden structure, a shrt distance upstream, in 1904.

Wehr's Mill site
Jim Miller 09/27/2011

The Wehr's Covered Bridge is located at the North side of Covered Bridge Park where it crosses Jordan Creek. The bridge was built in 1841 of a Burr arch truss framework, is 128 feet long and is rated at 10 tons.

Wehr's Mill site
Jim Miller 09/27/2011

These lime kilns are located a short way from Wehr's Covered Bridge, east on River Road towards Guth's Covered Bridge.GPS: 40D 37.73'N, 75D 34.22'W ele. 348'/106 meters Cementon Quadrangle

 
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