Sharples Separator Works, also known as the Gumas Warehouse and Kauffman Warehouse, is a historic

factory A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. T ...

complex located in West Chester,

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. Built between 1890 and 1909 by Philip M. Sharples, the site includes fourteen contributing buildings. They range between one and three stories, are of brick construction, and have low pitched gable roofs or hipped roofs. It was home to the manufacturing works for the Sharples Tubular Centrifugal Separator, the first American invented

cream separator A separator is a centrifugal device that separates milk into cream and skimmed milk. Separation was commonly performed on farms in the past. Most farmers milked a few cows, usually by hand, and separated milk. Some of the skimmed milk was consu ...

. ''Note:'' This includes Sharples Special Train

It was listed on the

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in 1984.

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