Phillip's Mill
Bucks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: Primrose Creek.
Built in 1756 by Aaron Phillips and ran through 4 successive Philips' generations. The Delaware Canal runs nearby, just across Pa 32 from the mill.
In 1889, the 35'x50' fieldstone/frame mill towering to 2.5 stories was sold to Stephen Betts Jr. George Morley Marshall, a Philadelphia surgeon, bought the mill in 1896 and all water rights.
In 1929, the Phillips Mill Community Asso. purchased the mill for art exhibits, plays, etc.GPS: 40' 23.12N, 74' 57.73W 102'31 meters Stockton Quadrangle
The miller's house, the original section immediately behind the directional signs.
*Updated: The Inn at Pillips Mill was once the pig barn for the mill/farm complex. The miller's house is the big house north of the mill and inn. At first it was one room down and one room up at the near end of the house to the mill. Additions and alterations came in later years. The white clapboard house beyond, to the suth, the barn was also part of the original Phillips property. Richard Phillips 10/23/2004*.
The Inn at Phillips Mill began life in the 1750?s as a stone farmhouse with an attached barn; it became the Inn at Phillips Mill after being purchased in 1972 by an architect and his wife, who renovated the structure into the inn.
Millstone on the grounds of the Phillips Mill Community Center/Art Gallery.
By the late 1800's, the village of Phillips Mill was known as an artist's haven. The nearby miller's house was once owned by the well known artist, William Lathrop.