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Perry Point Village exemplifies the standardized American company town design of the late 1910s. The site plan was completed in just one month by the noted New York architecture firm of Mann & MacNeille following the philosophies of the Garden . . . — — Map (db m184956) HM
Perry Point was designed in just one month. Architects Mann & MacNeille were able to expedite the design by creating a standardized house design based on their previous designs for "company towns" as illustrated in periodicals of the time . . . — — Map (db m184958) HM
The grist mill was built in 1735 and was operated from 1735 - 1800.
The water wheel was originally located on the opposite side of the wall.
In 1931, the water wheel was recreated as a "Colonial Revival folly" in the present day . . . — — Map (db m184955) HM
In 1918, the United States purchased Perry Point as the proposed site for an ammonium nitrate plant to assist in the war effort. The federal government signed a contract with the Atlas Powder Company on February 1, 1918 to oversee construction . . . — — Map (db m184954) HM
