Searight's Fulling Mill
Searight's Fulling Mill | |
 The mill, seen from Strawn Rd, June 2014 | |
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| Location | Cemetery Rd., Perryopolis, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°5′1″N 79°44′42″W / 40.08361°N 79.74500°W |
| Area | 8 acres (3.2 ha) |
| Built | 1810 |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001631[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 19, 1973 |
Searight's Fulling Mill is a historic fulling mill located at Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA. It was built about 1810 and is a 2 1/2-story, sandstone building with a gable roof. It measures approximately 20 by 30 feet (6.1 by 9.1 m). The mill closed in the 1820s and was converted to a dwelling.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
The mill is named after William Searight, who built the mill on a farm previously owned by George Washington.[3] Searight is credited for realizing that small fulling mills could not compete with city based factories served by railroads, and left the fulling business before his mills became unprofitable.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Helen L. Kosisky (November 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Searight's Fulling Mill" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-28.
- ^ Searight, James Allison (1893). A Record of the Searight Family. M. Cullaton & Company (Google eBook). p. 94.
- ^ Shepherd, Henry Elliot (1900). Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. S. B. Nelson (Google eBook). p. 266.
