{"nrhp_refnum":"78002420","name":"Kirks Mills Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W of Nottingham off PA 272","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nottingham","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":39.75223861400005,"lon":-76.10642796087858,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-07-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Kirks Mills is a small rural village at the southern end of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in Nottingham, developed around the grist mill of Jacob Kirk. The district includes houses, a brick mill, a meetinghouse, a schoolhouse and a log barn.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Kirks Mills as one of the earliest settlements in the region and an example of a rural Lancaster County community of the early 1800s. It states that the village became a local commercial center under Jacob Kirk, with the mill processing agricultural products and the general store supplying goods. It also notes that the exteriors and many interiors of its homes are well preserved, retaining original flooring, hardware, fireplaces and bake ovens.","narrative":"Kirks Mills is a small rural village in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, that grew up around a grist mill built by Jacob Kirk, who acquired the property in 1810. The district contains a brick mill of Flemish bond, Jacob Kirk's mansion known as Patience, and a stone Eastland Friends Meeting dating from about 1798. Other buildings include a brick schoolhouse built in 1838, several stone and brick houses from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and a log barn and log house listed on the 1815 tax records. The village served as a local commercial center, with the mill processing farm products and a general store supplying goods from outside the community. Its houses range from early colonial to late federal in date, and many retain original flooring, hardware, doors, fireplaces and bake ovens. Only two buildings postdate the 1940s, and they are noted as intrusions. The district is significant as a well-preserved example of an early nineteenth-century rural community in Lancaster County.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The nomination describes the condition as excellent and the district as largely unaltered, with two intrusions: a 1945 brick ranch house and a 1945 frame bungalow.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.382417-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002420.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002420/cf68fac4d6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002420/cf68fac4d6-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirk_Mills_Brick_Mill.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirk_Mills_Brick_Mill.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996828","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirks_Mills_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6415815"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/kirks-mills-historic-district-78002420/"}