The original mill on the site, the Abram Garis Mill, was built in 1832 and operated until it burned in 1922. The 1870, a description of the mill when Daniel Dingham was miller contains the following: a capitol investment of $6,500, water the power source, the mill ran three "machines", producing ten horsepower. Labor cost was $30/annually for one laborer. The mill processed 10,000 bushels or baskets of grain a year, operating on average only 2 months, which had a market value of $9,000. Most farmers grain milled was for their own use. Any marketed flour unknown, but probably hauled to Newton or Stroudsburg.

This mill was built in 1848 as the Bartonsville Mill, was disasemmbled and rebuilt on the Garis Mill site in the early 1990's. Bartonsville, Pa is about 5 miles northwest of Stroudsburg on Pa 611 & I-80, while Millbrook village is aproximately 15 miles northeast of Stroudsburg in the northeast corner of Warren County, NJ. A new overshot wheel was installed and water is pumped and recirculated because of usage restraints.

Bartonsville, Pa is about 5 miles northwest of Stroudsburg on Pa 611 & I-80, while Millbrook village is aproximately 15 miles northeast of Stroudsburg in the northeast corner of Warren County, NJ.

A new overshot wheel was installed and water is pumped and recirculated because of usage restraints. For info., write to: Jim Morris, Box 52, Readors, Pa 18352. Phone: 717-629-1583. GPS: Latitude: 41? 04.41N, Longitude:74? 57.81W

This photo is used with permission from Mike MacCarter, ohiobarns.com website.

The earlier mill, built in 1832 by Abram Garis with Dennis Fuller as the miller, and 17 acres was sold to Elijah Schoonover for $2,000 in 1854. Four years later, the mill and property was handed-off to his son James. James lived in the miller's house in 1860, then sold the mill to Robert Hunt, a Blairstown resident, in 1861. A week later, Bartley D. Fuller bought the mill and sold it the same day to Maria Smith of Newton, Sussex Co. for $2375.

More mill roulette was in store for the mill. Ms. Smith sold the mill in 1867 for $3000 to William Fox. The next year, Bartley Fuller repurchased, for $2400, the parcel; this time keeping it in the Fuller family until 1905. Daniel Dingman ran the mill in 1875 and George Garis was milling in 1895, as Fuller was an absentee owner.

There was much depreciation in the mill from the 1860's through 1905, as there was in general in Millbrook. The mill was sold in 1905 by Fullers widow & son for $500. The decline in the mills value also reflected the fall of farmland in general in the area. As the subsistance farmers left Pahaquarry Twp., the mill lost its customers and the mill ceased to be the center of the community. The mill closed its operations about 1900, even before its last sale.