{"nrhp_refnum":"80003454","name":"Clinger-Moses Mill Complex","other_names":["Clement's Mill"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Chester Springs on Pine Creek Lane","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chester Springs","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":40.083468786000054,"lon":-75.61290637866958,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-07-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mill complex in Chester Springs, Chester County, Pennsylvania, comprising a fieldstone grist mill, a saw mill converted to a cottage, a stone dam, a main miller's house, a barn, and a second residence with outbuildings. The earliest mills date to the eighteenth century.","why_significant":"The complex has been the site of mills for well over two hundred years, and the nomination argues that its mills, dam, and farm buildings document long-running agricultural and milling use. The stone dam is described as unusually massive for a mill dam, and the grist mill is described as a solid and handsome building in its own right.","narrative":"Chester Springs, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, is the site of a milling complex whose oldest saw mill is thought to date from about 1764 or earlier. A grist mill is documented on the property by 1795. The complex includes a fieldstone grist mill of Civil War vintage, a saw mill now converted to a cottage, a massive stone dam with an overflow that dominates the view, a main miller's house built in 1801 of fieldstone, and a barn with a date stone reading 1800. The house and barn carry inscriptions dated 1800 and 1801, and the nomination attributes their construction to Mattias Fox, owner of the mills from 1796 to 1802. Its importance rests on the long continuous operation of its mills, the scale of its dam, and the survival of several early farm buildings grouped together. Both mills operated for a long period before conversion to residential use in 1959-60.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Converted to apartments in 1959-60; the main house was rebuilt after a 1929 fire; the gristmill works were sold to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the saw mill machinery is held by the Smithsonian Institution.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:34.546874-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003454.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003454/e0200938c9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003454/e0200938c9-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clinger_Moses_Mills.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:Clinger_Moses_Mills.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995037","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinger-Moses_Mill_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5133729"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/clinger-moses-mill-complex-80003454/"}