{"nrhp_refnum":"90001624","name":"Mill at Lobachsville","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Mill Rd. at Pine Cr., Pike Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lobachsville","county":"Berks County","state":"PA","lat":40.41356881600004,"lon":-75.72762938026975,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of ten historic resources on Pine Creek in Pike Township, about half a mile north of Lobachsville in Berks County, Pennsylvania, centred on a gristmill built in 1887 with a stone-and-frame farmhouse, bank barn and other outbuildings. The property includes a house-mill origin dating to c. 1745.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is significant for its association with the county gristmill industry, as a representative example of mills that were part of family farms. It is also presented as an architecturally significant mill and farm complex whose buildings are typical Berks County types. The mill operated for about two hundred years and retains its machinery and millstones.","narrative":"Along Pine Creek in Pike Township, a short distance north of Lobachsville, a rural complex of ten historic resources centres on a gristmill built by David Reinert in 1887. The mill is stone to the third story, which is frame, and it retains its milling machinery, three pairs of millstones and bagging hoist. Its origins lie in a house-mill dating to around 1745, whose house portion survives as a stone and frame farmhouse with a Germanic central chimney. Other buildings include a bank barn of c. 1814, a summer kitchen with a large fireplace and bake oven, a settler's cabin, an ice house and a pig sty. The mill was in constant operation until 1965, and a head race roughly one third mile long still supplies water to its pond. The complex is valued for its association with the county gristmill industry, where mills were part of working farms, and for its typical Berks County mill and farm buildings.","period_of_significance":"1745 to 1939","architect_builder":"David Reinert (builder of the present mill)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Milling ended in 1965 after the last full-time miller; the property was later used as an office and an archives building, and the overshot water wheel was removed in 1976.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.240988-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/90001624.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001624/8b5708a4c2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001624/8b5708a4c2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Hshuvaeva","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mill_at_Lobachsville_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Hshuvaeva</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mill_at_Lobachsville_01.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83002218","name":"Oley Township Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/oley-township-historic-district-83002218/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992390","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_at_Lobachsville","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6858452"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/berks-county/mill-at-lobachsville-90001624/"}