Schlegel Grist Mill
Berks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: Willow Creek.
Schlegel Grist Mill
From Sh 662/N.Franklin St. in Fleetwood, turn east onto E. Main St. At N. Beech St. angle left on Fleetwood Ave. At the junction with E. Race St., the road becomes Fleetwood-Lyons Road. The mill is less than a half mile further on the right side before getting to the right turn junction with Fleetwood-Dryville Road.
Heinrich Schlegel built this mill about 1803-1805 on a plot of 46 acres he bought in 1803,close to the 252 acres he bought a few years earlier from his father, John Christian Schlegel.
Heinrich was born in 1779 on his fathers farm at Fleetwod/Lyons Road and Stump Road. He erected his grist mill on the smalller plot og ground about 3/4 mile beyond the then town of Fleetwood.
Heinrich married Esther Deim in 1800; and together, they raised a family of 6 boys and 5 girls. The front of the mill has vestiges of the two doors that were replaced with windows between the lower door and the catshead.
This photo shows the miller's house, c. 1828, today after some recent additions and alterations. The mill's address is 1066 Fleetwood/Lyons Road.