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Burrough Mill/Cologne Mill

Bucks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: 1831
Township: Newtown Twp.
Watersource: Newtown Creek
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Burrough Mill/Cologne Mill

Located at 10 Barclay Street, Newtown Borough, Bucks County. Actually at the SW edge of the Boro.




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Burrough Mill/Cologne Mill
Jim MIller 07/05/2007

Now remodeled into apartments. The 3.5 story fieldstone mill was water-powered and later steam- powered. The mill was powered by Newtown Creek about one mile upstream from its joining with Neshaminy Creek.

Burrough Mill/Cologne Mill
Old Postcard Submitted by Ted Hazen

An early photo of the Cologne Mill by the Arnold Bros., Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa. about the turn of the 20th century.

Burrough Mill/Cologne Mill

Another name for the 40'X 60' fieldstone edifice was "The Old Cologne Mill".

Burrough Mill/Cologne Mill
Jim Miller 07/05/2007

*UPDATE--April 13,1912 Newtown Enterprise. The Cologne Mill property was sold to Pierson Wilson, then to William R. Stuckert. Built in 1831 by Chapman Buckman on a site that had a mill long before. Reservations for water rights are on deeds that go back a least a hundred years for lots between the mill and the dam.

Burrough Mill/Cologne Mill
Jim Miller 07/05/2007

Update cont'd: In 1835, Mr Buckman built a large stone house at State and Barclay Sts., now the residence of Dr. Guerry. The mill's name dates from the ownership of Frederick Ellenger, who named it for the town he emigrated from, Cologne, Germany. Jeff Marshall 03/12/04*

 
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