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Chester Sugar Refining

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Date: 1895-1900
Sign on building: “For sale, wharves and buildings. Apply to Samuel Lyons, Market Square.” Avenue of the States was formerly called Market St.

Riddle's mills

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Date: 1894
According to Henry S. Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (1985), p. 120, this was originally a nail mill that Samuel Riddle converted to a textile mill after purchasing it in 1875. As late as 1983, the mill was occupied b the…

Riddle's race

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Date: 1894
The mill race is rejoining Chester Creek downstream of the Riddle’s Mill, near Glen Riddle. See AP-5183-2 for more information.

Beatty’s Mill, on Crum Creek

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Date: 1889