The first mill was built in 1768 when Coryell's Ferry was the moniker of the town. Dr. John Todd purchased the grist mill from Atkinson & Pettit, in turn selling the grist mill and saw mill to Benjamn Parry in 1789.

Parry bebuilt the mills, adding a flaxseed oil mill and a flour mill to the existing grsit mill and lumber mill. A year later fire destroyed the mills, but, he rebuilt the flour & lumber mills, renaming them "New Hope Mills".

The 1851 Parry barn, one of the oldest stone buildings in New Hope, slightly altered from the original appearance, had been an Art Gallery for many years. Now, is in a transitional phase between uses.

More milling history coming soon.

The falls on the Aquetong at the former mill location.

The mill continued operating up into 1938, when the machinery stopped and the doors closed for the last time by then operator, Andrew Brown. The Bucks County scale of agriculture and lumber production could not effectively compete any longer on either a national or international level. The milling industry had moved earlier to Baltimore & Rochester, and was even then,in 1938, moving westward to larger scale farming and a milling center focused in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.

The Salt Works on E Mechanic St. east of Pa 32 just south of Aquetong Creek and the former New Hope Mills. The building was also at one time the offices for the New Hope Mills enterprise.