Mill Details

Hill-Wanner Mill

Berks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: 1790
Township: Exeter Twp.
Watersource: South Creek, trib. to Antietam Creek.
Location / Directions

Hill-Wanner Mill

From Pa 562 in St Lawrence, turn right on Bingham Road along Antietam Creek. Go north about 0.6 miles, angle right on Butter Lane and go about 1.2 miles and turn left on Exeter Road. The mill is just west of Butter Lane on the right side of Exeter Rd.

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Hill-Wanner Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 07/02/2006

A smaller 2.5 story frame mill built in 1790 along Exeter Road at South Creek just SE of the Lower Alsace Twp. line. It is about 1/2 mile from the Wanner-Hartman Mill on Friedensberg Road on out Exeter Road.

Hill-Wanner Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 07/02/2006

The mill has a large frame section added on to the creek side. Used as a grist mill, then later as a rifle-boring mill.

Hill-Wanner Mill

It has been described as in ruins; although somewhat derelict, it seems to have been used as a residence in recent years and is for sale at the present time.

Hill-Wanner Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 07/02/2006

The mill is for sale. It needs to be purchased by someone who will give it tender loving care to stop the deterioration. More history is needed for this mill, share any info you may have with millpictures.com.

Hill-Wanner Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 07/02/2006

The remains of the dam are on South Creek just to the east of the structure. Water flow appears to have worn down the wall of the dam at the spillway, but is still a credible impounding structure.

 
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