Longacre Grist & Saw Mill
Bucks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: Unami Creek.
Longacre Grist & Saw Mill
From the junction of Pa 313, Pa 309, and Pa 663; go west on Pa 663/Broad St. Immediately angle off to the right on Old Bethlehem Pike. Follow north for 3 miles and turn left on Rosedale Road. Go about 0.4 miles to the mill on the right side up a lane with miller's house.
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The 3.5 story stone and frame mill, the bottom story stone, is about 45'X 55' in size. The mill was visited in the early 1980's and again in September 2011.
An overshot wheel was utilized to power both the grist mill buhrstones and an up-and-down saw.
GPS: 40D 28.23'N, 75D 23.57'W ele. 600'/183 meters Milford Square Quadrangle
The mill once had a long raceway, the remnant depression behind the mill now filled in with trees and brush.
The east exposure of the mill. The headrace area, overgrown, is to the right side and rear of the mill in this photo. The inlet for the race would probably have been in the area of the small garage doors today.
A photo of the mill from the early 1900's. The figure in the upper door may be transferring sacks of grain from the upper floor to the floor below, where the man there is ready to pull the sacks in on the rope or chain attached to the catshead.
The mill in winter, early 1900's, with the miller's house to the right side.
The miller's house in 2011, pretty much the way it looked in the early 1900's, except the brick has been stuccoed.
The farm that the mill is located on was once the boyhood home of Horace Longacre.
Horace Longacre was a well known poultry processing entrepreneur, whose poultry plant, Longacre's Poultry, was located in Franconia, Montgomery Co., Pa. The enterprise was merged in the late 1990's with a processor from Virginia and the name became Wampler/Longacre with plants in several areas.