Melcher's Mill
Berks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: Tulpehocken Creek.
Melcher's Mill
From NW edge of Reading, take the Tulehocken Road exit off the Warren St. Bypass/US 422. Go 2.5 miles to the Berks Co. Heritage Center at Red Bridge Rd., right turn off Tulpehocken Rd.
A small mill 3 story stone & frame mill, about 25'X 25'. No history is known, whether it was an historic mill at that location, moved there from another location, or simply built there to compliment the other historic structures at the Heritage Center.
The Berks Co. Heritage Center is also home to 1867 burr arch Wertz's Red Covered Bridge linking the townships of Bern and Spring; the Gruber Wagon works of 1882, moved in 1978 from nearby Mt. Pleasant where it was doomed to be flooded by a Corp of Engineer' project; the C. Howard Hiester Canal Center; the Deppen Cemetary; & the park hdqtrs, the Reeser farm house.
The mill, built in 1888 in Bally, Washington Twp., Berks County, was moved to the Heritage Center in the late 1970's. It was water-powered and served initia;lly the Nicholas Melcher farm on which it was located.