H. Uhler Grist Mill/Lower Little York Grist Mill
Hunterdon Co. | New Jersey | USA
Watersource: Harihokake Creek
H. Uhler Grist Mill/Lower Little York Grist Mill
From Bridge Street in Milford, NJ, take a right on Frenchtown Road, then in 500 ' turn left on Cr 519/Milford-Mt. Pleasant Road. Continue NE for 2.5 miles, then turn left on Little York-Mt. Pleasant Road/Cr 631. Go north for about 2 miles to the mill on the right at 619 Little York/Mount Pleasant Road just past the junction with Spring Mills Road.
Jeremiah Hoff is credited with building the first water-powered mills at both the upper and lower Little York Mill sites from 1804 - 1815.
In the mid-1880’s, the area was also known as Valley Mills. This lower mill was also the site of a distillery (perhaps hard cider), built sometime between 1815 and 1823.
The distillery was built either by John and William Vanderbelt before 1819, or by Joseph King if after 1819. In the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, a farm implement dealership was opened near the lower mill in the old distillery structure by a family named Fox.
Ice was also harvested on the lower mill's millpond each winter and stored in an ice house. The mill and distillery were closed down probably in the 1930’s.
An early photo of the Lower Mill from the turn of the 1900th century, 1910 to be exact.