PRIVATE SALE
09.26.1843 Village Record
PRIVATE SALE of Paper Mill, Limestone Quarries & Lime
Kilns, situate on the road leading from
Philadelphia to the Yellow Springs, 17 miles
from the former and 67 miles from the latter place
In Tredyffrin township, Chester county, 3 miles
north of the Penn'a rail road, and 4 miles south
of the Schuylkill Canal and Reading Rail Road.
The Tract on which the Mill stands is bounded
by lands now occupied or formerly owned by
Jesse Snyder, Samuel Acker, Robert Todd and
others, and contains 30 ACRES OF GOOD
LAND. The MILL is built of Stone, 70
by 40 feet, 3 stories high, with wheel house
attached. The gearing is all of cast iron, but little
used and is in good running order. The mill
was fitted up at a great expense and adapted with
much care to the manufacture of fine paper ; the
wash water is conveyed a distance of 350 years
by means of iron pipes, from a reservoir which
supplied by a never failing spring of pure water.
The improvements consist of a large
Stone DWELLING HOUSE, conveniently
divided into 4 rooms on each
floor, with a wide entry on the lower story, and
is in good repair ; a stream of water passes near
the door ; stone spring house ; large stone BARN,
60 by 30 feet, with good stabling.
Four Stone tenant Houses, 2 of them
large and in good order ; 2 Lime kilns, both of
them nearly new. The lime stone Quarries are
the best in the State, and can be worked with
great facility and little expense. The blast kilns
so much in use in some parts might be erected to
great advantage in the quarries, as a stream of
water sufficiently strong wo work the blast passes
through them.
The mill is now running and is offered for sale,
because the owner is entirely unacquainted with
any kind of mill business and took the property
for the purpose of securing a lient he had against
it. The mill and three of the houses will be
sold separate if desirable, and with or without the
machinery. If not sold at private sale by the 30th
fo the 11th month, it will on that day be offered
at Public Sale, at 1 o'clock P.M. Terms can be
made easy and the property can be bought very
low. Persons wishing to view it will be
shown the same by calling on either of the
tenants. Possession of the mill can be had at
any time. PHILIP P. SHARPLESS.
West Chester, 7th mo. 25th, 1843. ts 19
Found by Herb Fry. Digitized by Heidi Sproat 5/20/2022.
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