Bergey Grist Mill Ruins / Renovation
Montgomery Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: East Branch, Perkiomen Creek.
Bergey Grist Mill Ruins / Renovation
Midway between Pa 73 near Skippack and Pa 63 near Harleysville, turn west off of Pa 113 onto Cross Road. Go about 1.3 miles and continue right on Bergey Mill Rd. for about 0.5 miles. The mill is down the hill at the creek by the east end of the iron bridge.
The Bergey Mill ruins on the E. Branch of the Perkiomen Creek, west of Lederach. The photo was taken on April 8, 1983 after the mill had burned in the early 1980's.
This is the renovation of the burned out shell of stone walls, photo taken on June 19. 2007. Much more of the residence, the mill has been transformed into, is hidden behind the mill building in the picture.
A pen & black India ink perspective drawing of Bergey's Mills with steel bridge in distance by historic artist Gordy Callison; showing both the gristmill and the sawmill (in the rear)as it would have appeared in the waning years of 1800.
Another April 1983 photo that includes the the double span steel bridge built in 1893 over the Perkiomen at the mill.
The sign for the Bergey Mill Homestead. Part of a park using the combined efforts of Lower Salford Township and the Lower Salford Historical Society.
One of the last remaining iron/steel bridges in the county, a double arch span with a central pier supporting the two arches in the middle of the creek. The span was built in 1893; Samuel H. Anders, Daniel Yeakle, and Charles Q Loch County Commissioners; Edward Elsennans, County Clerk; Alex K. Calhoun, Engineer; and W. H. Smith, Contractor.
The new resurrected mill as it were has been rebuilt from the ground up with some tasteful appendages. The mill even sports a catshead on the front gabel peak.
The East Branch of the Perkiomen Creek looking upstream from the bridge. The mill is about 3.5 creek miles from its junction with the west Branch of the Perkiomen Creek, about 0.5 miles downstream of Pennypacker Mansion with the overgrown Pennypacker Mill ruins across Pa 73 from the Pennypacker Estate. This is just south of Pa 73 junction with Pa 29 south of Swenksville.
The north end of Swenksville has another mill, the Kratz Mill, a brick 3 story structure at E.Park Ave. & Pa 73/Pa 29/Gravel Pike. The miller's house for the Bergey Mill at the Bergey Mill Homestead. More info needed about the mill and homestead.
The barn at the Bergey Mill Homestead Township Park is not the original to the farmstead. This barn, the Hiram Clemmer Barn , was dismantled and moved to the Lower Salford Township site from Franconia Twonship several years ago.
A parting shot of the Bergey Mill.