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"Burnt Mills" and view on Media Park

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-01433G.jpg
Date: 1880 (circa)
Back of card reads: "Thirty minutes by R.R. from Philadelphia. Media and Vicinity. Photographed by Samuel McMullin, Landscape Photographer, No. 1128 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia. Taken by request of James R. Cummins, Residence, Media, Penna." …

Victoria Plush Mill

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-10008.jpg
Date: 1890 (circa)
Copy of original photo; source not noted

Riddle's race

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5116-1.jpg
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.

Riddle's mills

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5183-2.jpg
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…

Chester Sugar Refining

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-5244.jpg
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.

Palmer’s Dam and Mill on Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08009A.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
Frank Lees caption: "This is Palmer's Mill, alongside Palmers Dam on the Crum Creek. Looking carefully you can see a fisherman sitting on the bank. Also you can see the spillway for the race which ran the huge water wheels in the mill. This mill was…

Palmers Mill and Dam at Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08040A.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
See also P-08008 and P-08009. This property is now beneath Springton Reservoir.

Palmers Mill and Dam at Crum Creek

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-08040B.jpg
Date: 1900 (circa)
See also P-08008 and P-08009. This property is now beneath Springton Reservoir.

Eddystone Trolley Case

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8132-5.jpg
Date: 1900-1909
Shows church at 9th and Sayville in Eddystone, with trolley No.16 of the Chester Traction Co. This was likely taken by Appleton in support of a legal case regarding a trolley accident. A large factory is in the background.

Dorsey’s Mill, Peach Bottom, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8223-1.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Water-powered mill with water wheel. Cow in foreground drinking from stream.

Dorsey’s Mill, Peach Bottom, Pa.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8223-2.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Water-powered mill with water wheel. Cow in foreground drinking from stream.

Tidewater Steel Co., with railroad engine

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8242.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Photograph may have been taken to support a legal case related to this location.

Tidewater Steel Co., railroad racks

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8243.jpg
Date: 1902 (circa)
Photograph may have been taken to support a legal case related to this location.

Sixth St., Chester, looking east

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8175.jpg
Date: 1902-03-04
Probably photographed in support of a legal case involving an incident at this location. See 1892 Delaware County Atlas, Plate 15. This photograph was taken from about 6th St. and Crosby St.

Sixth St., Chester, looking west

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8176-1.jpg
Date: 1902-03-04
Probably photographed in support of a legal case involving an incident at this location. See 1892 Delaware County Atlas, Plate 15. This photograph was taken from about 6th St. and Crosby St.

Sixth St., Chester, looking west

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Appleton/AP-8176-2.jpg
Date: 1902-03-04
Probably photographed in support of a legal case involving an incident at this location. See 1892 Delaware County Atlas, Plate 15. This photograph was taken from about 6th St. and Crosby St.