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Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE

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Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE

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Summary

Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American industrial development and they now serve as an interesting case study which documents that development.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-8
Survey number: HAER DE-14
Building/structure dates: 1846 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1849 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1858 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1874 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1877 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1881 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1884 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1893 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1896 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78000913, 80004486

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Date

1901
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Garrett , William E
American Snuff Company
George W. Helme Company
Yorklyn Mushroom Company
Garrett, John
Garrett, Levi
Garrett, William E
Garrett, Walter
Wilmington & Western Railroad
Dukes, James Buchanan
American Tobacco Company
National Vulcanized Fiber
Rineer, George, photographer
Seely, Bruce, historian
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Yorklyn, 39.81013, -75.67356
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