Mill Details

Painter's Mill

Chester Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Known Dates: Possibly 1795
Township: Birmingham Twp.
Watersource: North Radley Run.
Location / Directions

Painter's Mill

From Chadds Ford on US 1, go north on Creek Road, about 2.4 miles to 1075 Creek Road at W Street Road/Sr 926. The mill property will be on the east side of the road. The mill sits back off the road about 100 yards.



Verse for Thought
Could my tears forever flow, Could my zeal no longer know, These for sin could not atone; Thou must save, and Thou alone. "Rock of Ages" by Augustus M. Toplady 1740-1778
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Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

Tax lists show Joseph Painter to be a fuller and cloth dresser, who owned a fulling mill in 1795.

Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

The miller's house behind the right side of the mill.

Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

A different view.

Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

A corn cob grinder located in the ground floor.

Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

Perhaps some heavy timber structure to support a grindstone set if it was ever a grist mill.

Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

Joseph Painter built a house on this property in the late 1700's.

Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

This former farm and mill retains the house, wooden barn, wooden corncrib and stone and frame mill.

Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

The newer, more modern barn on the property. A fieldstone one story dairy barn with frame upper end walls and a hip roof. The barn has several stone buttresses on the roadside end for added strength.

Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

Perhaps a dam immediately behind the mill, hence the wall.

Painter's Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 01/30/2016

 
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