John Heebner, born January 9, 1802, married Susannah Barndollar, January 7, 1827, and died June 8, 1850. He owned and operated the Perkiomen Mills located at Yerkes Station, for many years. This particular mill building was that of his son, Christopher B. Heebnner.

Heebner Mill marked as "H. Evans Mill"? on Montgomery Co Atlas of 1871. There was a longstanding water right controversy concerning the J. Worrall Mill at Collegeville and the C.B. Heebner Mill at Yerkes Station; the matter of Heebner's Mill adding to much height to their dam. Beginning as early as 1830, the Worral and Heebner conflict began to drag through the court for over a dozen years, a solution was thought to have been arrived at in 1849, by placing a iron pin in a rock, over which the water level was not to be higher than.

Heebner's dam was only 18 inches high, but the drop in the flow in about 2 miles of stream was less than that amount. When Heebner had the water level higher than the pin, the Worrell mill wheel did not work well, to much of the wheel was under water creating excessive drag & friction on the turning wheel. The Heebners apparently did not abide too strictly to the pin method of measurement and the case eventually went to the Pennsylavania State Supreme Court. The miller's house is located across Yerkes Road from the mill complex.

The false front-type roof back above the overhead garage door has an old sign on the crested part that reads faintly - Landes Motor Co. GPS: 40D 10.2'N, 75D 27.79'W ele 125'/38 meters Collegeville Quadrangle