Mill Details

Hixson-Skinner / Cole's Grist Mill

Warren Co. | New Jersey | USA
Known Dates: 1752
Township: Pohatcong Twp.
Watersource: Pohatcong Creek.
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Hixson-Skinner / Cole's Grist Mill

On Still Valley Road 500' north of junction with Cr 626/Municipal Drive and along Pohatcong Creek. The mill is about 1 air mile ESE of I-78 south of Phillipsburg, NJ.

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"A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul."
({Proverbs 18:7 NKJV})
Hixson-Skinner / Cole's Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

The 35'X 40'stone/brick and frame grist mill was built in 1752 on a site utilized by a mill since the early 1700's.

Hixson-Skinner / Cole's Grist Mill
Jim Miller 10/16/1992

The complex includes a two story, four bay, stucco over stone miller's house dating from the mid. 1700's, a garage, the pony, Pratt Truss steel bridge over Pohatcong Creek, a guest house, and the 4.5 story mill.

Hixson-Skinner / Cole's Grist Mill
Jim Miller 01/17/2007

The miller's house on the north side of the Pohatcong Creek.

Hixson-Skinner / Cole's Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

The mill last water power into the 1960's,using electricity to operate into the 1980's. Even so, the water-powered equipment and mill machinery are in good condition. Three generations of the John L. Cole family operated the mill into the 20th century.

Hixson-Skinner / Cole's Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

*Update: Matthew Cole, his son William Cole and William's son John Cole. Matthew Cole was my great grand father. John was my father's cousin and active in the Warren County Historical Society - Joyce Beauchamp, 11/19/05*

Hixson-Skinner / Cole's Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. More information is needed on this mill.

Hixson-Skinner / Cole's Grist Mill
Jim Miller 07/17/2007

More will be added as the info. materializes. Some info gleaned from the Spoom website and the Pohatcong Twp., Warren Co. NJ website. GPS: 40' 39.23N, 75' 08.18W 253' elevation measured in Degrees & Decimal Minutes.

 
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