Mill Details

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill

Berks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: ca. 1810/1850
Township: Washington Twp.
Watersource: Small tributary to Perkiomen Creek.
Location / Directions

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill

Located about 1000 feet from the intersection of Main Street/Pa 100/Kutztown Road and Church Hill Road at Clayton, not quite one mile east of the middle of Bally, Pa.




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Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill
Jim Miller 09/22/2011

The small stream, a satellite tributary to the Perkiomen Creek, feeds the small mill pond behind the mill at the end of a walkway/pier that juts out into the pond.

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill
Jim Miller 09/22/2011

Another view of the farm mill.GPS: 40' 24.58N, 75' 34.38W 432'/133 meters East Greenville Quadrangle

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill
Jim Miller 09/22/2011

A line shaft runs across the ceiling of the two room first story of the mill. It is this shaft that turns the large pully on the outside of the mill.

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill
Jim Miller 09/22/2011

The basement/lower section of the mill is asseccable through the door in the stone wall as shown.

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill
Jim Miller 09/22/2011

The hurst frame is inside the lower section of the mill as is a cooling springhouse type vat.

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill
Jim Miller 09/22/2011

Another view of the hurst frame and some gearing.

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill
Jim Miller 09/22/2011

The miller's farmhouse as this was a farm mill. The building was being repointed and undergoing other maintanence at the time of visit.

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill
Jim Miller 09/22/2011

The oringinal house on the property is little more than a shed now. Notice the mill on the right and the larger house on the left.

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill
Jim Miller 09/22/2011

The dairy barn on the farm. Notice the large wheel type contraption on the side of the barn. This was a pully system, connecting to the mill, which enabled the farmer to mechanically operate hay forks and other mechanical equipment at and in the barn, utilizing the water-power that operated the mill.

Borneman Mill / Stauffer Mill
Jim Miller 09/22/2011

The final photo shows the corresponding wheel-pulley on the side of the mill, which was operated by the power drawn from the mill operating mechanisms.

 
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