Gruber Wagon Works, Pennsylvania Route 183 & State Hill Road at Red Bridge Park, Bernville, Berks County, PA

Significance: It is an extremely well preserved example of factory built and operated as a family business. It retains an enormous number of wood working machines that are all still located in their original location within the works. In the 1970s the structure, including machinery, was moved to the Army Corps of Engineers to prevent its inundation following the completion of the Blue Marsh Lake Peoject...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-6

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1392

Survey number: HAER PA-14

Building/structure dates: 1882-1883 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: before 1911 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001092

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1969 - 1980

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