Three different people from town were asked about the mill. None of them could give any history, but all three said they knew it as Johnson's Mill.

John Gunkle lived in Chestnuthill Township and eventually ran the grist and saw mill in Kresgeville.

An 1885 deed for the property is the first to mention a grist mill on that location. The original mill may have been built several years before 1885 by James M. Berlin.

Berlin with his brother Adam, sold the mill and its deed, to about one acre of land & rights to build a new dam above the then, present dam with water rights to operate such mill, to Amandus W. Wannamaker in July of 1885.

The waterwheel at Wannamakers Mill was of metal, 12 in diameter and 9.5 wide across the face of the wheel. The wheel, or about ¾ of it, still resides over the original wheel position, although several feet higher.

The rear of the mill, showing the relationship to the wheel to the mill. Better picture are located on the website to show the original wheel location, penstocks feeding the distribution box, etc. The Pohopoco Creek runs behind the mill and originally received the tailrace waters from the mill.

Lineshaft and pulleys that were left in the current Head to Toe Outfitters store which now uses the building as a retail outlet for clothing and Western wear.

More information needed about the Wannamaker and Johnson milling years.

The mill became known as Johnson's Mill in later years. See the website for further details concerning the equipment and machinery documented when the mill was renovated in 2005. GPS: 40' 54.01N, 75' 29.83W Elevation: 699'