Durham Grist Mill
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
Durham Grist Mill
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Digital Art
Description
DURHAM GRIST MILL by PRISCILLA BURGERS
The Durham Grist Mill and Furnace is a historic mill located in Durham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The mill was built in 1820 on the foundation of the Durham Furnace. The furnace was built in 1727 and remained in operation for 70 years. It produced pig and bar iron and during the American Revolution cannons, ballshot, and other military equipment. Underneath the huge heavy rolling mill stones, corn, millet, oats, rye, barley and a Special Winter Wheat were ground. The flour was sold to customers locally and as far away as New York City in large white paper bags. The front of the bags carried a picture of a young boy slicing a piece of homemade bread. The same advertising logo was painted on the front of the mill. The young boy, sitting on a three-legged stool, had a bread knife in his hand ready to slice a piece of homemade bread. One of its managers of the mill was Col. George Taylor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The mill building is a three-story, stone structure with the overshot wheel located inside the basement. Attached to it is a large, brick gambrel roofed warehouse, added in 1912. The Durham Post Office opened at the mill in 1723, the second oldest post office in the United States. The mill was owned by Congressman Reuben Knecht Bachman in the late-19th and early-20th century. The mill remained in commercial operation until 1967 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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Street Art Group - 7/4/2016
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Signs Group - 7/18/2916
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July 2nd, 2016
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