AREA HISTORY:  Manufacturers, Monaghan Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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MANUFACTURERS – Page 648

At the pottery of Samuel Myers in Siddonsburg was formerly on the farm now owned 
by Jacob Cocklin, but the buildings were burned a few years ago, and the 
location was changed to Siddonsburg by John Elcock, Jr., who carried on the 
business very successfully for some years, but sold to the present owner in 
1882, and went to Illinois, to engage in tile-making.

The coach shops of Moore & Bushey in Siddonsburg, sleighs, buggies and spring 
wagons are manufactured.  The shops are the most extensive of the kind in this 
section.  The firm is also engaged in the undertaking business.

H. Deitz has a coach shop in Andersontown.

Monaghan Township has three saw-mills:  P. Laucks’ near Bowmansdale; Levi 
Lantz’s on the Yellow Breeches, and L. T. Fortney’s on a small stream a short 
distance southeast of Mount Pleasant.

One of the first grist-mills within the present limits of Monaghan Township was 
a small log-structure, with an undershot wheel, built by William Parks on the 
Yellow Breeches.  After some years the log-building was torn down, and a stone 
one was built, with the same undershot wheel for motive power.  John Gardner, 
Esq., of York, once owned this mill.  The undershot wheel was exchanged and a 
“center discharge” was used up to 1882, when P. Lauck put in two thirty-inch 
turbine wheels.  The capacity of this mill is 1,200 bushels per day (twenty-four 
hours).

Watts’ Mill is situated three-fourths of a mile northeast of Siddonsburg.  
Robert Bryson built a grist-mill on the site of Clark’s saw-mill, but taking 
fire it was destroyed, after which the present mill was built by Mr. Bryson, who 
also built ovens for drying corn and manufactured it into meal; he furnished 
hundreds of barrels to the city market.