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Embreeville Historic District
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Embreeville Historic District, October 2011
Embreeville Historic District is located in Pennsylvania
Embreeville Historic District
Location in Pennsylvania
Embreeville Historic District is located in the United States
Embreeville Historic District
Location in the United States
Location Rt. 162, Newlin Township, Pennsylvania
Area 65 acres (26 ha)
Architect Multiple
MPS West Branch Brandywine Creek MRA
NRHP reference No. 85002350
Added to NRHP September 16, 1985

Embreeville Historic District is a national historic district located in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 12 contributing buildings along the east and west banks of the West Branch Brandywine Creek in the village of Embreeville. It includes a variety of vernacular, banked, stuccoed stone buildings. They were largely built between about 1822 and 1842, with the earliest house built about 1760. The buildings include a farmhouse, a country store, a storekeeper's house, a blacksmith's house, a wheelwright's house and store, a grist mill known as the Embreeville Mill, a "mansion" (1856), and miller's house.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

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