Prizer's Mill Complex is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

located in East Pikeland Township,

Chester County, Pennsylvania Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: ''Tscheschter Kaundi''), colloquially referred to as Chesco, is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in ...

. The district includes 5 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures. They include miller's houses dated to the 18th and 19th century, two barns, a

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, a

grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

, millrace, and the remains of a 19th-century

carriage house A ''carriage house'', also called a ''remise'' or ''coach house'', is a term used in North America to describe an outbuilding that was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and their related tack. Carriage houses were often two ...

. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

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in 1978.

References

Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Chester County, Pennsylvania Buildings and structures in Chester County, Pennsylvania Grinding mills in Chester County, Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Chester County, Pennsylvania {{ChesterCountyPA-NRHP-stub