Old Mills in Bethlehem Township/West Bethlehem Township

                                               Barker map North Hector, N.Y. : William J. Barker 1856. Source: Library of Congress.

Old Map Section of 1856 West Bethlehem Township. Source: Library of Congress. 

Old Sawmill and
Gristmill locations are highlighted in yellow. The "Old Mill" in photo 3 is Kinder Mill just over the border of West Bethlehem Township into East Bethlehem Township? Iams Mill (later Martin's Mill) is the 1st highlighted area from the left. The 2nd highlighted image is a sawmill that sat about 1/2 mile before Rudnicks on the right (coming from Marianna. The 3rd highlight on right is a mill that sat near Ten Mile Creek just off Ten Mile Creek road where it gets flooded (near the old Knizner house). Compare here to a section of the 1861 Map of Washington County-West Bethlehem Township.

Wise Mill-Demolished. It was located near Ten Mile Creek, one mile below Ulery Mill, in the area where Camp Timberlake was recently located. The Mill was built in the late 1700s and was the 1st mill in the township. In operation for many years, the milling business was later divided with Ulery Mill after 1836, according to the Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Philadelphia: H. L. Everts and Co. (1882), p. 971

 Martins Mill-Built in 1839 or 1849. It was located near Ten Mile Creek near the old Rudnicks restaurant, in what was once Bethlehem Township, now Amwell Township. It was moved to Colorado.

Ulery Mill-demolished, was located in Zollarsville, Pa. It was originally powered by water drawn from Ten Mile Creek.  Later steam was used and was vented through a tall chimney.

Kinder Mill-historic residential landmark/farmstead located in East Bethlehem Township on Martindale Road.

Keys Mill-?

Buckingham Mill-?

Ulery Mill Photo by Generic1139, wikipedia.org, WCHS

Kinder Mill Photo by Generic1139, wikipedia.org

For comparison of the West Bethlehem township area in 1861(top) to the West Bethlehem township area today 2021 (bottom). As you can see, sometime after 1861 the West Bethlehem township area grew smaller. This was, for the most part, due to the establishment of North Bethlehem Township in 1921. Of course, the mining town of Marianna Borough was incorporated in 1910. This is the small area inside West Bethlehem.

Same area in 1817

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These two images show the same area in West Bethlehem Township and Amwell Township. Amwell is the orange area. It seems there was a Fulling Mill (left photo) located near the saw mill (right photo), or maybe there was a fulling mill first that was later used for a saw mill? G.M and S.M stand for Saw Mill and Grist Mill.

There was a mill referred to as "Paul's Mill" near what was once the Lone Pine Market.