Kutz's Mill, Greenwich Township, Berks County, Kutztown, PA, and the 4 generations of Kutz Family who lived there and ran the mill.

National register of historic places put Kutz Mill on its register in 1990.

The paperwork says the mill was built around 1854 and the house in 1855, both built by then Miller and proprietor, Jacob Kutz. I believe this Miller was Jacob Philip Kutz. 

He was William P. Kutz's father. William P. Kutz appears in photos below with his family. For some time, in the 1800's William's younger brother Charles Edwin Kutz is said to have run the mill, but when he died in the late 1800's, his estate was sold and William, his brother is believed to have taken over the farm and mill until his death in 1938. 

Family photo taken on the porch of the Miller's house at Kutz's Mill.

From left to right clockwise: Ida Diana Kutz, her brother Pius Henry Kutz, their mother, Emma Caroline Kohler Kutz, her husband and their father, William Philip Kutz, Farmer and Miller.

On the porch of the Miller's house and family home at Kutz's Mill.

Foreground: Pius Kutz, other unidentified men sitting on the porch socializing, his father William P. kutz is in center seated wearing hat and moustache. 

Father and son, Pius Kutz is standing behind his father William P. Kutz seated.

Miller's house porch

Miller's house from a distance

Here are some of the local fellows hanging out at the mill. This is the doorway facing the road on the second story. I believe I see a young Adam Kohler and I am sure William Philip Kutz is there with his usual hat and moustache somewhere amongst them.

In this recent above photo you can almost see all the same stones, still darker than the rest in the same pattern today as over 100 years ago.

Google earth photo of Miller's house today.

Photo from Wikipedia page for Kutz Mill.

Here is Jacob Kutz, who had the Mill and Miller's house built:

Jacob Philip Kutz's obituary cabinet photo card 1907.

William Philip Kutz and wife Emma Caroline Kohler.

This above photo may be William Philip Kutz and Emma Caroline Kohler shortly after their marriage.

Photos is unlabeled, so corrections are welcome.

Ida D. Kutz (Jacob's granddaughter) never married and lived in the Miller's house her whole life. She worked at a local knitting mill. 

Ida's brother, Pius William Kutz married Hilda Ella Merkel. 

Below is Pius Henry Kutz and his wife Hilda Ella Merkel around 1917.

They had one child, Lee William Kutz, who never married. He was a farmer in Greenwich Township, on a farm up the road from Kutz's Mill.

Lee William Kutz (1930-1995).