Glen Mills

Glen Mills was an early industrial village. John Taylor built Thornbury, later called Sarum Forge, here around 1740. He erected Pennsylvania’s first iron-slitting mill here in 1746, and the Wilcox family acquired it in 1836 for its Glen Mills paper operations. Until 1878 these mills made paper for U.S. currency, and a localized-fibre paper was developed to foil counterfeiters. By 1858, when the railroad arrived, it was a busy commercial area.

Pennsylvania · United States