St. Peters Village Historic District

Along St. Peters Road at the Falls of French Creek in Warwick Township, a narrow ravine village grew around an 1845 iron mine and an 1880 granite quarry opened by Davis Knauer. Company-built frame and stone houses, a general store, a bakery, and a hotel called Excursion House line the road within a short walk of the mines and quarry. The village is regarded as an intact example of a rural industrial workplace with housing arranged around it, with few alterations to its buildings. Knauer's French Creek Black Granite was first sold for curbstone and Belgian paving blocks in Philadelphia, and later for memorial stones. During the 1940s the stone was used to make precision surface plates for measuring instruments. The district is significant for its industrial history and for its late Victorian domestic architecture, which shows a unified design across its workers' houses.