[CPEO-BIF] Bondsville Mill, East Brandywine, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel]

Ruins of old Bondsville Mill may be incorporated into park

By Anne Pickering
Chester Daily Local (PA)
October 28, 2006

EAST BRANDYWINE --- A storied part of East Brandywine's past may be 
literally rising from the ruins as the township embarks on a path to 
study how to convert the old Bondsville Mill site into a park.

"We're all really excited about the opportunity for a new park on a site 
of historical significance," said Mary Beth Smedley, township secretary 
and treasurer.

The mill operated for 110 years, making everything from woolens in 1841 
to plush linings for U.S. Air Force jackets during World War II, and 
permanently closed in 1954. Since then, the buildings along Beaver Creek 
have fallen victim to the weather and gradually lost roofs, walls and 
floors. They are mostly visited by squirrels and neighborhood youth.

But all that is soon to change. In the spring the township appointed a 
committee to study creative use of the site. Committee members visited 
the property in September and recommended that the buildings on the far 
west end and the far east end be looked at by engineers as possible 
candidates for protection from further deterioration.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17389749&BRD=1671&PAG=461&dept_id=17782&rfi=6

-- 
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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