GRIST From the Mill Volume 12: Issue 2 Fall 2018 A Publication of the Newlin Grist Mill The Connection of Newlins and Brewing BY TIM SELLERS - Millers and beer have been paired in the popular imagination at least since Chaucer’s “Miller’s Tale,” but really since the first days of brewing. Fresh- cracked grain makes the best beer mash, and millers had the necessary technology close at hand. Every brewery had a grist mill, and some grist mills brewed beer for the carters who brought their grain.

This makes it unsurprising that the Newlin family of millers took an interest in beer, and a few made it their life’s work. Nathaniel Newlin sold beer making equipment in his store next the mill. The most famous of the Newlin brewers was Robert Newlin, grandfather of Earl Mortimer Newlin, who This image of Robert Newlin’s Brewery is from an advertisement printed on the back of an envelope. established Nicholas Newlin Foundation.

Robert Newlin was born on August 27, 1808 in Fishkill Landing, New York, where his father (also Robert) ran a grist prominent brewers. On July 27, 1837 mill, acquired by his father, Cyrus Newlin Robert Newlin was confident enough to of Wilmington Delaware in 1792. John marry his sweetheart, Ann Penrose Scull. Table of Contents Comly of Byberry, Pennsylvania visited 2 Newlins and Brewing (continued) Robert Newlin cherished a ring with the You Make it Happen the Newlin family in 1815 and wrote that Newlin arms on it, brought to America by his “heart felt for them,” living “alone, 3 Join Today and Make a Difference his wealthy Quaker immigrant ancestor Protect the Future by Planning Today sixteen miles from Friends meeting” with Nicholas Newlin. He commissioned a 4 Volunteer Profile “six children growing up to an age that large painting of the Newlin Arms for Community Outreach & Engagement needs good society.” 5 2018 Interns display in his brewery. Such pride in a Eagle Scout Projects To offset this isolation, the Newlins Christian and a Quaker tempted fate and 6 Summer Discovery Camp 2018 visited frequently between Fishkill, on August 21, 1847 the Newlin brewery Archaeology Festival 2018 burned down, caught up in a conflagration Earth Day 2018 Wilmington, and Philadelphia, where young Robert soon became involved in the Broome Sugar refinery next door. 7 Upcoming Events It was the hottest fire in the history of 8-9 Around the Mill with the Morris family. Anthony Morris was among Pennsylvania’s first brewers, Philadelphia, and when the brewery wall 10 Grants Make an Impact collapsed into Bread Street, 27 firemen established on Front Street by 1687, Hollywood Comes to Newlin Grist Mill were badly injured and two of them died. 11 Millwright Shops Prepares for and his descendants – still brewing on Opening Day Pear Street (near Dock) – hired Robert Archaeology Receives New Home Robert was well enough established to and his friend James Abbott to manage rebuild and even expand the brewery, 12 Spotted Lantern Fly Monarch Tagging the brewery. By 1836, when Robert was buying the old Moravian Church on Race only 28 years old, he and Abbott were 13 Reproduction bowls available Street on March 7, 1854. He was among Pipe Stems experienced and wealthy enough to buy the largest and most celebrated brewers 14 Furnish An 18th Century Kitchen the main Morris brewery between 2nd in Philadelphia when he died suddenly 15 2018 Sponsors and Bread streets (“Moravian Alley”) and on November 21, 1858. He was only 50 16 Calendar of Events between Race and Arch. This placed them years old and he left behind his widow and among Philadelphia’s largest and most seven children – six boys and one girl. Nicholas Newlin Newlins and Brewing, Continued Foundation Trustees Mrs. Newlin called on her husband’s Executive Trustee old friend, James Abbott, to carry on the Mortimer Newlin Sellers brewery, and she was listed as a “brewer” Deputy Executive Trustee for some years in the Philadelphia Jane B. Alavi directories, but eventually found a buyer and retired. Treasurer Henry F. Thompson, Jr. Under the leadership of Director Tony Shahan, there is a renewed interest Secretary in beer at the Newlin Grist Mill with Susan Shisler Rapp brewing demonstrations, beer tastings, Board of Trustees and collaborations with local breweries. Wally Alderfer In April, Newlin Grist Mill collaborated Jamie Bruton with Twin Lakes Brewery and Marc Eliza Newlin Carney Meltonville to recreate an 18th century Maceo Davis style ale. Samples of this year’s Newlin Patrick Harshbarger Ale will be available at the Sip Behind the 18th-century brewing demonstrations at Ed Keane Scenes on October 11th. Newlin Grist Mill. Johannes Jarka-Sellers Lucy Bell Jarka-Sellers Frances Stead Sellers Marianne D. Squryes You Make it Happen at Newlin Grist Mill Henry F. Thompson, Sr. Mason C. Thompson Do you know how important your membership and other financial contributions are to Mark Willcox III Newlin Grist Mill? Your support makes it possible to provide educational programs and Emeriti popular events. Memberships and donations keep the historic buildings repaired, the trails Timothy B. Barnard clear, and grass mowed but also protect open space, conserves streams, and preserves Ellen M. Cronin traditional skills. Virginia DeNenno Lawrence Dunbar Your support in 2018 has allowed Newlin Grist Mill to: Bill Newlin, Jr. • Offer 17 different educational • Collaborate with other organizations William V. P. Newlin programs and businesses Lucy Bell Newlin Sellers • Plant 30 trees & 360 wetland plants • Work on excavating the mill’s • Expose 100s of kids to fishing tailrace Newlin Grist Mill Staff • Provide 4 speakers for the Newlin • Provide 3 different books for Tales Tony Shahan, Director Series on Trails Laura Adie, Programs and • Conduct regular stream quality • Remove ½ acre of invasive species Administration Manager testing • Host 3 interns in biology, Keith Doms, Site Manager • Tag 50 monarch butterflies archaeology, and museum Brenda Orso, Development • Serve nearly 1000 students from over administration Manager 30 schools Jessica Shahan, Naturalist and Thank you for making an impact at Newlin Grist Mill with your gift! Volunteer Coordinator Mike Boughner, Head of If you’d like to explore additional ways Maintenance you can get involved and make an Gabriel Christy, Maintenance impact, please contact Brenda Orso at Assistant 610-459-2359. KB Inglee Bodge Inglee-Richards Pictured left: A school group participating in Gabrielle Long a Frog Pond Exploration, one of the many Gina McKinney programs offered at Newlin Grist Mill

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We are at a critical time in our history, just love having the beauty and history of nationally as well as locally. Open land this property right in our own back yard is disappearing, natural habitats are being and want my membership to support its I just love having the destroyed, and environmental threats like preservation,” says Drew. “You’re really beauty and history the spotted lantern fly are a real concern. missing out if you haven’t gone for a run But with your membership to Newlin Grist or walk on these great trails!” of this property right Mill, you can have a positive impact, now and for the future! Your membership will The membership program at Newlin in our own back ensure the preservation and care of 160 Grist Mill is growing rapidly. As of the yard and want my acres of open space in Concord Township, publishing of this newsletter, over 150 freely accessible to everyone, all year long. member families have chosen to add their membership to support support up from 65 member families Over 44,000 people visit Newlin Grist in 2016. “We came to the park with our its preservation. Mill each year. Perhaps you are one grandkids,” says Mary Ann. “We loved of them, walking the trails with your it, so we decided to become members dog, fishing with your kids at the trout to help keep it going.” Membership has ponds, or learning about history at one its privileges and includes such benefits of our educational events. Newlin Grist as free mill tours, discounts on special Mill is your community resource, and programming and gift shop purchases, as a privately-operated non-profit, your as well as member-only events. In 2018 membership is vital to the continued our members enjoyed a flatbread pizza operation of both the museum and park. party at the outdoor bake oven. This “We walk our dogs here often and love the year there is also an after-hours hayride park,” says Sharon. “We became members and s’mores night, as well as a guided to give back and we enjoy the benefits.” conservation tour. Future member events Now is an exciting time to join with other are being planned now for 2019, and as a members to help preserve and protect this member, you can weigh in on what types important resource. Your membership of activities or programs you’d like to see not only helps to maintain the park and happen. We will also be expanding the trails, but supports projects like the newly benefits of membership in 2019, so join or opened Millwright Shop, the completion renew today! You can go online at www. of the Trimble House Kitchen and Pantry newlingristmill.org/membership, or call Building a masterpiece at the Members Pizza Party Exhibit, and the future expansion of the 610-459-2359. Join now to preserve the Frog Pond classroom environment. “I past and protect the future!

Protect the Future by Planning Today

Nearly 60 years ago, E. Mortimer Newlin attending events and programs, or are bequests, life insurance, and retirement planned for a future he knew he would never enjoying the park with family and friends. plans. These legacy gifts have significant see or experience himself. He envisioned Chance are, you would like to be a part advantages. They enable you to give far a future that included generations of of continuing to preserve Newlin Grist more than you may be able to give during families hiking, fishing, and learning about Mill for future generations and to leave your lifetime and you can also direct your colonial life and early American industry. a legacy of stewardship that reaches far gift toward a specific program or project His vision, and his plan, for Newlin Grist beyond what can be seen or experienced you would like to support. Mill’s future has shaped the historic site today. You can make that happen through and park into what it is today. planned giving. If you are interested in learning more, or you have already included Newlin Grist Chances are, you have helped continue the Planned giving is simply a designated gift Mill in your future plans, please let us mission created by Mr. Newlin, whether it which is distributed at a later date. The know! Contact Brenda Orso at 610-459- be by a financial donation, a membership, three most common and simple methods 2359 or [email protected].

www.newlingristmill.org | 3 Volunteer Profile Newlin Grist Mill relies heavily on was the wide variety of activities in which volunteers for its many programs, events the mill community engages. Because and projects throughout the year. In of the ever-increasing number of special this issue, we would like to highlight a events that the mill sponsors, members of volunteer who has contributed much since the public have an opportunity to engage he began volunteering with us in Fall in some of those activities and better 2017. Frank Henderson became interested understand the important role Newlin in volunteering after retiring from his job Mill plays in our community.” One of his as a Health Administrator. “I have been a favorite projects so far has been being a neighbor of the mill for more than 30 years team leader for our Earth Day volunteer and my family and I have been frequent event, where he worked in the Forest visitors during that time,” he recently Restoration Area planting new trees and wrote. shrubs. “It provided an opportunity to invest in the future of the park and engage Since joining our volunteer team, Frank in community outreach,” he wrote. has contributed to a wide variety of projects, from cleaning artifacts for our Moving forward into the winter months, Frank and our team of volunteers this archaeology program, to the Trimble Frank is looking forward to participating season. Frank said it best, “Whether you House Collections Room renovations, more in the Millwright’s Shop, where have interest in history, preservation, to supervising youth volunteers as they volunteers and staff are working on archaeology or nature and the outdoors, worked on invasive plant removal. “One building a new wooden waterwheel for Newlin Mill has a satisfying volunteer of the biggest surprises [of volunteering] the Grist Mill. Please consider joining activity available.” Community Outreach and Engagement

As the Newlin Grist Mill continually Philadelphia Zoo, Garnet Valley School works to increase our engagement in the District, Delaware County 4-H, Tri-State community, one of the most often heard Bird Rescue, and Wild Birds Unlimited of comments from people is “I drive by Glen Mills. We have attended camp fairs there all the time and have never stopped and community days, and given talks at in.” This comment reflects two things: Winterthur, Rachel Kohl Library, Rotary 1) community engagement is critical to groups, retirement communities, and supporting the mission of Newlin Grist archaeological societies. Our existence Mill, and 2) we aren’t doing enough. as an organization, a nature preserve, and Community engagement is a way in which as a historic landmark is dependent upon all organizations anchor themselves to the continual community engagement and communities where they operate and serve, outreach. and Newlin Grist Mill is no exception. This We need your assistance in getting the historic site and park were founded nearly An example of a NGM outreach display. 60 years ago by E. Mortimer Newlin, a word to our community! Help us tell the man with a vision for the future and a heart community about the great programs, for this community. The land, buildings, events, and activities at Newlin Grist programs and activities are designated Mill. As a community ambassador, you for the enjoyment and education of can help with displays at community the public, especially individuals and festivals talking with community about families that live in our surrounding areas. opportunities at the Newlin Grist Mill. Community engagement raises awareness and puts a face to a name, and it helps If you would like more information about to sustain and grow the organization volunteering as a community ambassador, through increased visitation, volunteers, please contact Jessica Shahan at jshahan@ and program participation. In the past newlingristmill.org. If your business or few years, we have partnered with many organization would like us to speak to a organizations and businesses, including group, or have a table at an event, please A young visitor interacting with an outreach activity. Maris Grove, West Chester University, contact us to arrange it. 4 | Newlin Grist Mill Newlin Interns

Gabrielle Long was the environmental intern for 2018. During her internship, she performed an arthropod survey, which entailed the collection of various insects and arachnids from shrubs in the Forest Restoration area. She then identified the specimens and performed data analyses to compare diversity, richness and abundance between the two target shrubs. In addition to the entomological survey, she conducted a habitat restoration survey where she identified plant species, removed invasive plants and created a restoration plan to plant native plants. She also assisted with ongoing conservation and environmental education activities in the park including monthly water quality testing, tree nursery care, caring for the caterpillar display, and environmental themed field trips. Following the completion of her internship, she graduated fromWest Chester University with her B.S. in Biology. She is continuing her graduate studies at WCU where she plans to pursue a certification in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Robert Heintz is an undergraduate student at West Chester University pursuing an Archaeology major and Geology minor. Robert enjoys creating ArcGIS maps and is the Archaeology Department’s unofficial mapping expert. His internship included mapping the major features and archaeological excavations at Newlin Grist Mill as the first step toward a Cultural Landscape Study. It was the largest project he has done to date. Robert found his love of Archaeology while serving in the U.S. Marines during his first deployment to Iraq. Robert, along with other members of his unit, assisted Iraqi archaeologists in retrieving stolen relics from the looted Iraqi National Museum. During his free time, Robert is a homebrewer focusing mostly on ciders and meads which he makes from historic recipes he has collected from peers and longtime brewers in the craft. Robert will graduate in December of 2018 and intends to pursue his master’s in public Archaeology.

James Luc Meltonville will be interning at Newlin Grist Mill for nine weeks this fall. He studied archaeology at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. After graduating, he spent last summer interning at Mount Vernon, VA in the Historic Trades Department learning how to bring history to life through practical demonstration at a living history farm and working mill. He spent two weeks last summer volunteering on the archaeological excavations at Newlin Grist Mill. He returned this fall as an intern at Newlin Grist Mill to learn the other side of a museum – administration. He is looking forward to his time learning about day to day operations in the museum, being educated in the different aspects of research, planning and execution of events, and project management. His first week was spent excavating the tailrace, preparing for the Delaware County Archaeology Festival, and helping at the Archaeology Festival.

Eagle Scout Projects Make A Difference! There is a long tradition of Eagle Scout pleasure to help the Newlin Grist Mill.” projects at Newlin Grist Mill. In 2018, two Congratulations to Walker and Frank! We scouts completed projects: Frank Jacquette are proud to partner with our local scouting of Troop 93 and Walker Robertson of troops and are so thankful for all the ways Troop 149. Both scouts worked on picnic they make our park safe, accessible, and tables for their projects. Walker’s project beautiful for our community members and included repairing existing picnic tables, visitors. and constructing a new, wheelchair accessible 12’ picnic table. “The teamwork and cooperation that my troop showed on this project allowed it to be a success,” Walker said. Frank Jacquette’s project included two new 12’ picnic tables which were much appreciated by our summer campers. “It was my hope that Newlin Grist Mill and its visitors enjoyed the Walker Robertson and his crew with Frank Jacquette putting the finishing touches on one of his picnic tables. tables,” Frank said. “It was an absolute their finished picnic table. www.newlingristmill.org | 5 Archaeology Summer Earth Day Festival Discovery 2018 was a Continues Camp 2018 Resounding Despite Weather Success! Nearly 300 people attended the fifth annual Over 100 volunteers gathered at the Delaware County Archaeology Festival Newlin Grist Mill in April to work on on September 8th despite rainy weather. projects that celebrated and promoted the The festival celebrates archaeology in park’s wealth of natural resources. Delaware County and educates about the process of archaeological investigation. This year’s projects focused on habitat The event is cohosted by Newlin Grist restoration and improving biodiversity. Mill and the Delaware County Planning While many conservation initiatives Department. revolve around an iconic species or habitat, such as rhinos or the Great Barrier The festival included excavations and an Reef, the species that inhabit our local artifact cleaning laboratory where visitors backyards, roadsides, and parks are just as helped screen for artifacts, cleaned Building our own baking soda volcanoes important. As such, we manage the park’s during Mad Scientists Camp! excavated artifacts, and had the opportunity 160 acres for the biggest benefit to the to learn artifact illustration. West Chester greatest number of species (both plant and University’s Anthropology Department Summer Discovery camp season is always animal). In doing so, we make sure that our assisted NGM Archaeologist Keith Doms a busy time in the park, and 2018 was natural areas are more resilient to future along with professional and advocational no exception! During the first week of disturbances like warming temperatures archaeologists on the excavations. Over a camp, we celebrated all things science and invasive species. dozen displays by universities, historical with a Mad Scientists theme. Campers societies, professional firms, museums, constructed bottle rockets, created baking During this year’s event, groups removed and collectors featured artifacts recovered soda volcanoes, and engineered marble invasive plants from the Forest and from the region. Young visitors explored roller coasters. They also visited with Meadow Outdoor Classroom and added the “Kids Dig” and reassembled broken different scientists and learned more about new plantings to the Forest and Frog Pond ceramics from individual pieces. For those their amazing jobs. During Time Travelers Outdoor Classrooms. Other volunteers looking to further experience history, Camp, they explored prehistory, Native cleaned up litter along the park’s roadsides Time Chef Henry Ward served samples Americans, the Colonial period, and the and removed woody debris along the trails of Native American foods, and visitors Industrial Revolution before traveling to to keep the grounds looking nice. Finally, could try throwing darts with an atlatl, a the future. Favorite activities included teams also worked to protect the park’s primitive hunting technology. meeting Ben Franklin and taking a “train historic Osage Orange hedgerows by ride” along the Industrial trail in the hay removing shrubs that compete with the The popularity of the Archaeology Festival wagon. For the final week, our campers trees for light. Interested in helping with is due to the combination of learning ventured Where the Wild Things Are with the park’s natural resources? You don’t opportunities and the thrill of discovery a world safari. They built their own aqua- have to wait until the next Earth Day. that often accompanies excavations. This scopes to explore underwater worlds, Sign up for one of our conservation-based year was no exception. The finds included discovered animal adaptations from across volunteer projects today! tin glazed ceramic, new redware styles, the globe, and met an armadillo! pottery kiln hardware, and several shafts and gears. Much fun was also had during our Afternoon Adventures, with campers learning how to make their own pizzas, following treasure maps, searching for bugs, and building their own boats. Our camp staff is already hard at work for the 2019 summer season with week-long themes that will include wild and weird nature, imagination and inventions, and explorations of all things water. New Afternoon Adventures will feature eco-art, a miller’s apprenticeship, and expanded colonial cooking programs. Volunteers plant trees and understory plants in the Discarded gears uncovered during excavations. We can’t wait to see you there! Forest Restoration Area.

6 | Newlin Grist Mill Coming Events Fall Harvest Festival Saturday, October 6

Don’t miss the annual Fall Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 6th from 10am to 4pm. This event showcases a variety of historical demonstrations, including millwrights, a , a shoemaker, and ironmaking. All ages will enjoy music, dancing, and puppet shows. Visitors can shop in the Colonial Market for handmade soaps, colonial games, pumpkins, cornmeal ground in the site’s 1704 grist mill, and traditionally-made pretzels. A food truck will also offer food for sale, and Twin Lakes Brewing Company will sell beer at the Colonial Tavern from 1-3pm (ages 21+). Admission is free. Parking is $5 per car. Shuttle buses to and from the parking area will run every 15 minutes.

Sip Behind the Scenes Thursday, October 11

After a brief summer hiatus, Newlin’s unique series of happy hours returned in September with “Bellows & Brews.”

Our last Sip Behind the Scenes for 2018 takes place on Thursday, October 11th from 6pm to 7:30pm. Themed “Mills & Stills,” it will serve as the official opening of our Millwright’s Shop, located in the 1704 Grist Mill. See the millwrights at work as they prepare to build a new waterwheel for the Mill! Enjoy spirits from Manatawny Still Works while learning about how the Millwright’s Shop will support restoration projects at Newlin Grist Mill for years to come.

Sip Behind the Scenes is free and open to ages 21 and up.

Tavern Night Saturday, November 3 Fall is upon us, and that means the annual Tavern Night is coming up soon. Join us on Saturday, November 3rd at 7pm for an unforgettable evening.

We will be serving up a multi-course meal inspired by 18th-century recipes. Each course is paired with carefully-selected beverages, including locally-brewed beer and historic punches. Tavern games and live historical music provide entertainment. The event also includes a live auction, so come prepared for a bidding war!

All proceeds from the dinner support the Dabbs Woodfin Internship Program, which provides students with valuable practical and educational experience at Newlin Grist Mill. Tickets: $60 per person. Spaces are filling up quickly—reserve your tickets today!

Saturday, October 20, 2018 Register online at www.runsignup.com $30 before 10/10, $35 beginning 10/11 $15/walker, kids 12 & under free

5K trail run and 1 mile walk.

Proceeds support the rebuilding of the water flume that powers the 1704 grist mill. www.newlingristmill.org | 7

Around the Mill

Delaware County Field & Stream Trout Rodeo. Volunteers made a big difference on Earth Day!

Lucky visitor samples Rebel Seed Cider during Sip Behind the Scenes. Students scan the Frog Pond for its inhabitants.

Family learns about stream life during Pop Up Naturalist.

Volunteer and Trustee Ed Keane plates food for Grains of the World Dinner.

Students from Russell Byer Charter School release the trout they raised in the classroom. Blacksmith Jeff Huffenberger demonstrating his craft to students.

8 | Newlin Grist Mill Around the Mill

Mixing up Jumbles for the bake kettle! Science is fun (and messy!) at Summer Discovery Camp.

Biologist Carlos Martinez Rivera of the Philadelphia Zoo helping students release tadpole they raised in their classroom.

Plein Air painting on the Pond.

Public Enjoys a bird presentation at Sip Behind the Scenes by Indian Run Volunteer giving the Visitor Center a much Adventure participants enjoy pizza they made Environmental Education Center. needed coat of primer. including the cheese!

Volunteers help sift soil for artifacts at Archaeology Festival. Students search the trees for birds during a Nature Walk with Naturalist Jessica Shahan.

www.newlingristmill.org | 9 Grants Make an Impact at Newlin Grist Mill

Grants are an important part of Newlin Grist Mill’s fundraising strategy. Grant funding awarded in 2018 will have a significant impact on multiple projects. Two of the largest projects receiving grant funding this year are critical components of the water system restoration. Both the water wheel and the water flume need to be replaced, and thanks to two grants work on both can begin. A grant from the Society of Colonial Wars purchased the final and materials for needed for rebuilding the water wheel. The grant ensured that the water wheel reconstruction could get Drawings depicting the new flume box to be built. underway this fall. being created in the second floor of the Work will focus on the 1739 kitchen A generous grant from Delaware County’s Mill. The grants from the Society of and pantry being restored as a working Marcellus Shale Legacy Fund will replace Colonial Wars and the Marcellus Shale kitchen. Planned work includes repointing the water wheel flume. The 24-foot-long Legacy Fund made this project possible masonry, installing a stone floor in the flume is 5 feet wide and nearly 6 feet tall made with white and a red by providing funding for the materials to pantry, and several other masonry repairs cypress lining. This winter, timbers will be processed in the shop. The Millwright’s along with replacing a beam in the pantry. be ordered so framing joinery can begin at Shop will open to the public on September When completed, the kitchen and pantry the same time as work on the water wheel. 29th as part of the History At Work Series will support group programs, weekend It is fortunate funding was obtained for and will be open Fridays through Sundays demonstrations, special events, and both projects at the same time so they can afterward. workshops. be replaced at the same time, reducing the time the mill will out of be operation. A grant from the Pennsylvania Historical These are just some of the ways that grants and Museum Commission’s Keystone have impacted Newlin Grist Mill. We Work on the water wheel restoration Historic Preservation program will hope you will visit often to enjoy the site and flume replacement projects will be enable completion of the third and final and follow the progress for these exciting conducted in the new Millwright’s Shop phase of the Trimble House restoration. projects.

Hollywood Comes to Newlin Grist Mill

The Newlin Grist Mill’s beauty and descent and an American undaunted by their time at Newlin Grist Mill, they filmed diverse collection of buildings and her physical disability. several scenes in the Grist Mill, Miller’s landscapes regularly attract the interest House, Trimble House, Blacksmith Shop, of film makers. Over the past decade, The production company filmed in Barn, and on the grounds. The yet untitled the Mill and park have been the setting Philadelphia and around the region before film is in post-production and should be for commercials, television series, moving to Budapest, Hungary. During released in 2019. documentaries, and films. In May, the Grist Mill was transformed into 1940s France.

The independent project by SMT Pictures is a female-driven World War II spy thriller retelling the story of Vera Atkins, known for recruiting, training and supervising the British secret agents. Writer, producer, and star Sarah Megan Thomas focused on her story as the spy recruiter who selected two of the first women of the Special Operations Executive – a pacifist of Indian Director Lydia Dean Pilcher watching a scene with writer, producer, star Sarah Megan Thomas.

10 | Newlin Grist Mill Millwright’s Shop Prepares for Opening Day

The Millwright’s Shop is preparing for its official opening on September 29th. The shop will provide space to not only rebuild the water wheel and work on other restoration projects but also to demonstrate period techniques. With help from volunteers, grants, fundraisers, and very helpful researchers the shop has started to take shape. Funding came from grants, proceeds from the Run for the Mill 5K Run/Walk and the Grains of the World Dinner.

The first step was to build the woodworking needed to complete the rest of the shop, namely a pair of planes and work benches built in the 18th-century style. With the help of Dan Lacroix of the Joyner and Planemaker Blog (joynerplanemaker. org), Gabriel Christy accurately recreated an 18th-century fore and a . These are used to turn rough cut into pieces which are , flat, and smooth. Gabe Christy and volunteers making stands for the water wheel restoration.

With the planes completed, production began. The workbench Archaeology Receives New Home in is a fundamentally important part of any traditional woodworking shop. Visitor Center Unfortunately, we have not been able to through the things they left behind. Bones locate surviving examples of millwright and seeds show us what they ate, while benches. What we do have are 18th- ceramic sherds and fragments of utensils century English and French illustrations. give clues to how they ate. Glass bottles Based on the Newlin’s English and Irish tell us about their medicines, beverage background, we chose to make an English consumption, and even commercially style bench with French joints (because prepared foods, while toys show us how the English illustration doesn’t show the they played. It is the age and context of joinery). these finds that help us properly assemble Bench production picked up in earnest the pieces of the historic puzzle. Archaeology has taken on an increasingly on August 3rd when seven volunteers cut significant role at Newlin Grist Mill Unless you have volunteered during one of all of the workbench legs, started since excavations first began in 2010. the monthly excavations, artifact cleaning them square, and bored and chopped the Investigations have been conducted days, or visited recent displays at the joints in the workbench tops. This helped at the Miller’s House, Trimble House, Rachel Kohl Library, you might not have to move the workbench project along, Outbuilding #2, Tailrace, and the recently seen these interesting artifacts or learned and gave our volunteers the opportunity discovered structure between the Grist about why they are important. Thanks to to become acquainted with 18th-century Mill and the Archive building. These a generous grant from The Stewart Huston woodworking tools and techniques. excavations have recovered over 25,000 Charitable Trust these artifacts and the If you would like to volunteer in the artifacts and altered our understanding of stories they tell will be made available in Millwright’s Shop contact Jessica Shahan Newlin Grist Mill and the evolution of its the Visitor Center for all visitors. The grant at [email protected]. All skill landscape. purchased a display case with two drawers levels are welcome, just be ready to work! so multiple themes can be illustrated at The artifacts provide insight into the people once. The case just arrived so exhibits will who lived and worked at Newlin Grist Mill be available later this year.

www.newlingristmill.org | 11 Spotted Lanternfly

the southeast boundary of the park on outdoor furniture, and other materials September 5th. Luckily, we have been for lanternflies and egg masses before intensively preparing for the pest’s arrival moving them to a new location. Purchase for the last year by removing most of the firewood locally to avoid spreading Ailanthus trees on the property. The few juveniles and egg masses. Finally, make large trees that remain are going to be used your yard unwelcoming to the lanternfly as chemical trap trees. After being injected adults. Remove all Ailanthus seedlings with a systemic pesticide, the trees are under 6 inches in diameter and females toxic to any lanternflies that feed on them, of any size, being sure to treat the stumps thus helping us to control population to prevent re-sprouting. For the large numbers within the park and hopefully trees that remain, have them treated with preventing them from reaching densities an injectable pesticide that kills feeding that cause damage. lanternflies. We do not recommend using sticky tree bands, as small birds and other What can you do to help? First, report wildlife can become stuck and die. Lanternfly Treatment- Our infested Ailanthus tree any sightings of Spotted Lanternfly to has been generously treated by John Rogalsky the USDA Animal and Plant Health If you live in the vicinity of the park and of Rick’s Plant Health Care. Inspection Service (USDA APHIS). have identified Spotted Lanternfly around Secondly, visually inspect vehicles, your home, please let us know. As many in this region are undoubtedly aware, we are facing a devastating new invasive insect threat – the Spotted Lanternfly. This species, thought to be native to China, was first discovered in Berks County in 2014. Since then, it has been spreading outward to surrounding regions. It initially targets Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) for egg laying. From there, the large planthoppers can spread to other plant species, including , fruit trees, grapevines, ornamental trees and shrubs. The adults suck the sap out of targeted plants and release a sweet, sugary honeydew that attracts other pest species and leads to harmful mold and fungal growths. With these feeding habits, the species is a major ecological, commercial, and backyard threat!

Two lanternflies were identified on a single Ailanthus tree located along Lanternfly Stages- Please keep an eye out for all life stages of the Spotted Lanternfly, including egg masses. Monarch Tagging 2018 has been a record year for Monarchs in the fall and back to the Gulf Coast in the in the park! Each year, we raise caterpillars spring. So far in 2018, we have released from eggs collected in the Native Pollinator over 50 butterflies, compared to 2017 Garden and keep them on display in the when we released 32. If you are interested Visitor Center for schools, families, and in helping Monarch conservation, consider summer campers to enjoy and learn from. planting milkweed in your yard or garden. Once the caterpillars finish metamorphosis Yes, it has the word “weed” in its name, but and emerge as adult butterflies, we affix it is a beautiful wildflower and is the only tiny numbered stickers to their wings. The food that Monarch caterpillars eat! Other Monarch YEC726 was released on September 4th. stickers allow each butterfly to be tracked Monarch favorites include coneflowers, Here, she is drinking goldenrod nectar in preparation as an individual as it migrates to Mexico fall-blooming asters, and goldenrods. for heading to Mexico.

12 | Newlin Grist Mill Reproduction Philadelphia Slip Decorated Bowls Available! Our newest item in the gift shop is a eighteen months to reconstruct these piece of Newlin Grist Mill’s history. The bowls. The first step was to analyze the Philadelphia slip decorated redware bowls fragments. Fortunately, the recovered are based on discoveries from excavations fragments were large enough to contain over the past few seasons. important evidence such as the cross section of the rim and sides. A chart was While excavating near both the Trimble used to measure the rim fragments and House and the Archive, several fragments determine overall size of the bowls. The of these slip decorated redware bowls 12” diameter bowls are 3” deep. with distinctive green decoration were recovered. The bowls were identified as Once the size and shape were having a specific shape and decoration reconstructed, we began searching for a commonly known as Philadelphia potter to complete the reconstruction. S & style pottery. The type was created in J Pottery was chosen to create a sample. Philadelphia and spread throughout the Then the sample was compared to the Mid-Atlantic region during the late 18th recovered fragments and final corrections century. While once very common, few of made. t h e s e b o w l s h a v e s u r v i v e d t o t o d a y . The resulting bowls are now available in Recovered sherds next to reconstructed bowl. NGM has been working for the past the gift shop for $75.

What Can We Learn From A Pipe Stem

Archaeology is interesting and often to Thomas Davidson, whose company We hope further research into this small frustrating in the uneven nature of was making pipes solely for exportation. but informative artifact will more information it reveals. Artifacts often Currently available evidence shows he about the history of the people who lived provide limited information of when or manufactured these pipes for a relatively and worked at Newlin Grist Mill. where objects were manufactured. Other short period from circa 1861 to circa 1891. artifacts furnish greater clues that allow (Museums Victoria Collections) researchers to track down their origins and establish better context for their Other pipes from Davidson have been excavations. A recently found pipe stem found in Dresden, ME, the Delaware was one of those artifacts. Bay and New Orleans, LA. Outside of the USA they have also been found in During the second day of his internship, Canada at New Brunswick and Québec Luc Meltonville was excavating in Test City. Pipes by Davidson have also been Unit 1 behind the archive. As he worked found in Australia and New Zealand. One cleaning up the unit for documentation such pipe was excavated at Harmony Hall, before the Archaeology Festival, he Maryland; ‘“DAVIDSON” impressed on recovered several artifacts. One of the the smoker’s left and “GLASGOW” on items found stood out to Luc, who wrote the smoker’s right; his university thesis on clay pipes. He had found a clay tobacco pipe stem with The research into the markings gives us an impression decoration. Unfortunately, a good indication of both the macro and no bowl has been located with this stem micro scale. Not only do we have evidence yet; however, the impression reads; of Davidson pipes being brought into and “DAVIDSON [flipside] GLASGOW”. used in the Delaware and Chesapeake The 4.5-centimeter-long artifact had a Bays from Scotland, but also the larger story to tell. scale market that Newlin Grist Mill was part of, and linked to, through this pipe Further research has shown that the and the world market that they were sold Davidson represented on the pipe refers in.

www.newlingristmill.org | 13 How To Furnish An 18th-Century Kitchen

In previous issues, we have discussed the inconsistent terminology, and reflect restoration of the Trimble House kitchen the subjectivity of the people taking and pantry. This has been a multiphase them (almost exclusively white men of project with the final phase with additional property). demolition and reconstruction work scheduled to be completed in early 2019. So in conjunction with inventories, we In the meantime, the staff has been busy have been studying period illustrations of researching how the kitchen and pantry comparable domestic interiors and extant should be furnished to accurately reflect artifacts. What appears to be a simple scene the time, place, and people that occupied at first glance often contains a wealth of it, while having a functional space for our details when it comes to material culture. public educational programs. Zooming in on the fireplace mantel or a set of shelves in the background of a painting The original section of the Trimble House, can help us determine how the space was in which the kitchen and pantry are located, used, where items were kept, and what the was built in 1739 by William Trimble, a various utensils and furnishings that are noted in inventories actually Sandpit Gate kitchen - butter by Paul looked like. However, Sandby - 1754. historic images also have their shortcomings. Art databases online, which has made it much is inherently a subjective easier for researchers to locate pieces. Even medium, and there may be when it is not possible for us to study these significant artistic license objects in person, detailed photographs or satirical hyperbole at and measurements are often included in play. Another issue for the catalog descriptions and provide a solid us is that there are very basis for making reproductions. Naturally, few surviving images of there are also downsides to using original American households from pieces for research. Surviving artifacts are the 18th century. Most of Kitchen scene by John Atkinson, 1771. often removed from their original context, the available drawings, may lack strong provenance (the history of paintings, and engravings who made and/or used the object, where, freeborn Quaker immigrant from Ireland. are British. While the Trimble family did and when), or may not be representative Like the Newlins, the Trimbles were emigrate from the British Isles, we cannot examples. “Survival bias” means that landholders who owned multiple mills in assume that the home they built in Concord the objects that had unique features, the area. The items that we use to furnish Township did not reflect influences unique less active use (and therefore were less their kitchen and pantry should therefore to the Delaware Valley region. likely to get broken or worn out), or held reflect an Anglo-American cultural special significance to the owners are the background, Quaker religious affiliation, We can also utilize the study of extant ones that tend to survive in museum and and upper-middle economic status. artifacts to guide our research. Many private collections and skew to the more museums now have their collections decorative, high-style pieces One important source of rather than everyday ones. And information during our research of course, the objects of everyday has been 18th-century probate life are the ones that we are most inventories of members of interested in as we furnish a the Trimble family and of working kitchen. contemporary Newlins. These inventories give item-by- While none of the resources item listings of the household available to us in researching furnishings of a recently deceased how to furnish the Trimble House person to prove up that person’s kitchen and pantry are perfect, will. While probate inventories they are all important in their provide valuable insight into what own ways. And when used in people owned, they can also be combination, they can help us frustratingly vague. Inventories The Farmers Return by Johan Zoffany, 1762. get a fuller picture of how these sometimes leave things out, use rooms should look and function.

14 | Newlin Grist Mill Newlin Grist Mill 2018 Sponsors

Thank you to our corporate sponsors and community partners who help support the programs and events at Newlin Grist Mill! FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL

Jane & Abass Alavi Harry Tillman Automotive LLC Lucy Bell Newlin Sellers Bernard, Mezzanotle, Pinnie & Seelaus Keystone 401K Taylor Farms Bryn Mawr Trust Lindsay Insurance Team Toyota Chandler Funeral Home Master Pagano’s Red Dragon Martial Henry Thompson, Jr. Chester Water Authority Arts Tobin’s Feed and Seed Destination Delco Quality Security Wild Birds Unlimited of Glen Mills Foulk Lawn & Equipment Quoin Capital

ARCHAEOLOGY FESTIVAL

Brinker Simpson Keystone 401K Team Toyota Bryn Mawr Trust Lucy Bell Newlin Sellers Henry Thompson, Jr. Delco Planning Commission

RUN FOR THE MILL 5K RUN AND WALK

9Round IT Edge Target Building Construction Amerihealth Caritas Kevin Kramer Photography Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania Avenue Kitchen Little Free Library Wegmans Concord Pennoni

SIP BEHIND THE SCENES

Levante Brewing Co. Philly Homebrew SMT Pictures Manatawny Stillworks Rebel Seed Cidery Twin Lakes Brewing Company Penns Woods Winery

TAVERN NIGHT

Jane & Abass Alavi Lucy Bell Newlin Sellers Henry Thompson, Jr. Brinker Simpson Team Toyota Tri-County Pest Control Keystone 401K

GRAINS OF THE WORLD DINNER

Carol Shahan Lucy Bell Newlin Sellers Henry Thompson, Jr Castle Valley Mill Tim Sellers Trader Joe’s Keystone 401K Team Toyota Twin Lakes Brewery

EARTH DAY

Herr’s Keep PA Beautiful Wegmans Home Depot Wawa

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS

Bird feeders sponsored by Wild Birds Unlimited of Glen Mills Spotted Lanternfly Tree Treatment sponsored by Rick’s Plant Healthcare

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Funding for the Newlin Grist Mill is supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Education. CALENDAR OF EVENTS

6 Fall Harvest Festival 11 Sip Behind the Scenes: “Mills & Stills” Oct. 18 Springhouse Storytime: “Fall Color Fun” 20 “Run for the Mill” 5K & Walk International Archaeology Day 27 Bird Walk History at Work: “Food Preservation” Pop-Up Naturalist: “Mighty ”

3 Tavern Night 22 Site closed for Thanksgiving

Nov. 24 Bird Walk

25 Site closed for Christmas Day 29 Bird Walk

Dec.

Saturday, October 20, 2018 Register online at www.runsignup.com $30 before 10/10, $35 beginning 10/11 $15/walker, kids 12 & under free

5K trail run and 1 mile walk.

Proceeds support the rebuilding of the water flume that powers the 1704 grist mill.