"Nicholas “Trucker” Kern's sawmill on Trout Creek, near Lower Main Street, Slatington. A mill was established on this site before 1755, as Benjamin Franklin purchased lumber there to built Fort Allen during the French and Indian War. The mill shown…
Demolished to make way for the new bridge over Trout Creek. For more information on the 1850 grist mill structure.See http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1876/. The saw mill was about one hundred yards further upstream.