Flour from the Pottstown maize mill was transported for resale to the nearby urban areas including Philadelphia and Reading. While the milling industry was eventually surpassed in economic importance by the 1850s by Pottstown’s iron and steel industry, the flour mill trade remained a major economic force in the town and the region for 200 years. In 1752, iron master John Potts obtained almost 1,000 acres of land that now comprises the western half of modern day Pottstown and the area west of Manatawny Creek andFFPD series horizontal bran finisher. Almost immediately, he began building Pottsgrove Manor, which would become his home. At the same time he constructed a dam on Manatawny Creek where it presently crosses King Street. He dug a millrace from the dam easterly to where the Hanover Street Bridge is now, entering back into Manatawny Creek slightly above where the creek enters into the Schuylkill River. Read More...