Info, video about mills of Lower Merion

The Mills of Lower Merion

Along the creek at Rolling Hill Park you can observe ruins of structures that once housed tenement workers of Deringer's Mill. The Nippes Rifle Manufacturing Mill site is now part of Rolling Hill Park. At the intersection of Old Gulph and Mill Creek Roads stands the 1690 house, assumed to be the home of millwright John Roberts.Mill Creek is the largest waterway running through Lower Merion Township. For over 200 years the mill industry supplied local residents and Philadelphians with grain, paper, guns and gun powder, lumber, metal, woolen fabrics, candles and lamp wicks. By the 1850's many of the mills closed or converted to textiles due to advances in technologies. Storms and floods devastated the mills and the flood of 1893 brought the final destruction to most of the mills along the creek.

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