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White Mills, PA - History
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Welcome to the White Mills Home page. The White Mills Home page provides as much information as possible on White Mills. Knowing White Mills’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within White Mills’s Home page, you will also find White Mills’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
White Mills has a population of 864. 53% of White Mills’s inhabitants are Male, and 47 are female. 36.1% of White Mills is married and 86.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $108,449. Household median income in White Mills is $40,357, and the individual median income is $17,941. White Mills’s Ethnic is the following: White(85.8%), Multiple(12.5%), Hispanic(9%), Black(1.7%).
In 1803, Jonathan Brink of Milford, Pennsylvania, purchased the Haines property and erected one of the early sawmills just below White Mills.Around 1823, a sawmill was constructed on the Lackawaxen River near where the Chroma Tube factory stands today. At the time, the area between Honesdale and Hawley, Pennsylvania, was sparsely settled, though it is likely that several farms and dwellings dotted the surrounding vicinity.
The new mill, built for a Daniel Parry (sometimes spelled Perry) & Company of Philadelphia, and its ancillary buildings were all painted white, which led to the village being called "White Mills." In 1865, Christian Dorflinger, a French-speaking Alsatian immigrant, opened a glass factory in White Mills.
Dorflinger had arrived in the United States in 1846 and established a prosperous glass company based in Brooklyn in 1852, but decided to build a dedicated factory and company town for the Dorflinger Glass Company at White Mills, in order to escape the pollution and violence of New York at the time. At White Mills, Dorflinger and his sons built a sprawling factory complex and more than 100 houses for workers and their families.
The town was in large part populated by craftsman who Dorflinger invited from Europe to work at the factory. Dorflinger Glass produced fine cut lead crystal that was used in the White House services of the Lincoln and Harrison administrations, and at prominent occasions such as the weddings of William Vanderbilt and Nellie Grant.
Production at the factory continued until 1921, when pressures related to prohibition and lingering effects of an embargo on German potash forced the company to cease operations. Upon the factory's closing, White Mills lost much of its population. In 2017, the remaining Dorflinger Glass Factory buildings were restored and turned into a museum.
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