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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19RZ_heine-weber-smokehouse_Willow-Street-PA.html
This smokehouse was removed from the site of the "Heine" Weber homestead in the historic Weaverland Valley. The house and barn on the Weber homestead were built in the early 1760s, and this building appears to be of the same period.
The roof wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19PF_millstones_Willow-Street-PA.html
These millstones stand in silent testimony to the importance of milling in Lancaster County. The first mill was built only a few years after the Mennonites arrived in 1710. Vital to agriculture, the mills increased in number to over 200 by 1839. M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19PE_blacksmith-shop_Willow-Street-PA.html
This building exemplifies the blacksmith shops that existed in all early communities. These shops were always an important part of local agricultural and community development. This shop is built in the exact dimensions of what is known as the Coo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2Y2_herr-house_Willow-Street-PA.html
Three quarters of a mile south on the side road is the stone house built in 1719 by Christian Herr, son of Hans Herr, founder, in 1710, of the first Mennonite community in this area. It is the oldest building this far west in Pennsylvania.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2UU_martin-meylins-gunshop_Willow-Street-PA.html
Old gunshop, built in 1719, is located about one mile northeast. Here, before 1745 the earliest known Pennsylvania Rifle, misnamed Kentucky Rifle, was made. building is marked with a tablet.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2UT_founded-1791-boehms-chapel_Willow-Street-PA.html
Boehm's Chapel is the fourth oldest existing structure built for Methodist worship in America. It was erected on land donated by the Rev. Martin Boehm, an itinerant preacher and co-founder with the Rev. Phillip W. Otterbein of the United Brethren …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2US_boehms-chapel_Willow-Street-PA.html
Built 1791, this "Temple of Limestone" is the oldest existing structure designed for Methodist use in Pennsylvania, and one of the oldest in the U.S. Erected on land formerly owned by Bishop Martin Boehm, co-founder of the United Brethren in Chris…