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Printz's or Old Swedes Mill |
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In 1646, some 35 years before Penn's Arrival , Swedish Governor Johann Printz built a grist mill in what the indians referred to as Karakung and we know today as Cobbs Creek. The mill was the first water driven mill in what would later become Pennsylvania and the site can be called the birthplace of Pennsylvania industry. It was a "Norse" or "Splash" mill. There is a model in the Hagley museum and an example in the Mercer Museum in Doylestown |
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| Note: Recent research indicates that the Minquas Path did not follow Island Road but folowed a more direct path, between Powers Lane and Jones Lane, to the terminus |
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