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Show OLD~PAPERMAKIN 9 of the Willcox mill at Chester and after he set u his own establishment he adopted the dove an branch, of Willcox origin, as a watermar The New England mills which were founde during the middle of the eighteenth century apparently used no watermarks, at least it is not pos sible to trace definitely any emblems that had thei origin in that locality The fourth paper mill in Pennsylvania was established forty-six years after the original Rittenhouse project. This was "Die Papier Miihle de Briiderschaft zu Ephrata," built on the banlks o the Cocalico Creelk, in Lancaster County. Ephrat was a communistic settlement, being a branch o the Pietists of Germany who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the early eighteenth century. Th members of the community lived in a cloister o convent under monastic rules of celibacy and austerity. This community was self-sustaining a they not only fabricated their own paper but en gaged in printingand bookbinding, aswell as man of the simplercrafts. A number of the building belonging to the old cloisters are still standing an form one of the most interesting groups of earl eighteenth century buildings in North America The paper mill no longer remains and during visit to Ephrata a number of years ago, the write was unable to gather any information in regard t the appearance of the structure, even after talkin Di ta image © 2004 Marriot Libary, University of Utah. Al righs reerved |