{"nrhp_refnum":"93000352","name":"Milanville Historic District","other_names":["See Also: Skinner's Falls Bridge"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, Rt. 63027 from jct. with Rt. 63029 E to Skinner's Falls Bridge via bridge approach rd., Damascus Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milanville","county":"Wayne County","state":"PA","lat":41.67200823200005,"lon":-75.06404043465432,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-04-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district centered on the village of Milanville in Damascus Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, at the confluence of Calkins Creek and the Delaware River. It contains nineteenth and early twentieth century wood-frame residences, a former company store, a schoolhouse and related outbuildings.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its link to the lumbering, tanning and wood distillation industries that shaped the Upper Delaware Valley in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly through the Skinner and Beach families. Its architecture, dominated by vernacular buildings in Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Eastlake styles, is also cited as distinctive, with a high proportion of contributing buildings and good integrity.","narrative":"Milanville is a village of wood-frame houses, a store and a schoolhouse built mostly between 1850 and 1910, set along River Road where Calkins Creek meets the Delaware River in Wayne County. The earliest surviving building is the Nathan Skinner House, framed at Tammany Flats and floated downstream on timber rafts in 1815. The Skinner family, who owned the village sawmill, were the valley's leading lumbering and timber rafting family, and Calvin Skinner gave the village its name. The Beach family ran the tannery, which produced leather for industrial belts. After the hemlock supply was exhausted, the tannery became an acid factory producing charcoal, wood alcohol and chemicals for explosives during World War I. The mills and factory are gone, but the residences and the Milanville Store, which kept its traditional function, still reflect those industries. The district is valued for its concentration of vernacular houses in Greek Revival and Victorian styles, and for its largely unchanged rural setting.","period_of_significance":"1815-c.1920","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival; Late Victorian/Queen Anne/Eastlake","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Document states the Skinner's Falls Bridge and some buildings were restored in the 1980s and 1990s; the acid factory and sawmill are gone.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.964067-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/93000352.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000352/4ddc82051c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000352/4ddc82051c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milanville,_Pennsylvania.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milanville,_Pennsylvania.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315459","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milanville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6850792"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/wayne-county/milanville-historic-district-93000352/"}