Searight's Fulling Mill

Searight's Fulling Mill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The mill, seen from Strawn Rd, June 2014
Location	Cemetery Rd., Perryopolis, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°5′1″N 79°44′42″W / 40.08361°N 79.74500°WCoordinates: 40°5′1″N 79°44′42″W / 40.08361°N 79.74500°W
Area	8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built	1810
NRHP Reference #	73001631[1]
Added to NRHP	June 19, 1973

Searight's Fulling Mill is a historic fulling mill located at Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1810, and is a 2 1/2-story, sandstone building with a gable roof. It measures approximately 20 by 30 feet (6.1 by 9.1 m). The mill closed in the 1820s, and converted to a dwelling.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

The mill is named after William Searight, who built the mill on a farm previously owned by George Washington.^[3] Searight is credited for realizing that small fulling mills could not compete with city based factories served by railroads, and left the fulling business before his mills became unprofitable.^[4]

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Helen L. Kosisky (November 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Searight's Fulling Mill" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-28.
3. Searight, James Allison (1893). A Record of the Searight Family. M. Cullaton & Company (Google eBook). p. 94.
4. Shepherd, Henry Elliot (1900). Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. S. B. Nelson (Google eBook). p. 266.