Mill Details

Pittstown Feed Mill / Bodine Lumber Co.

Hunterdon Co. | New Jersey | USA
Known Dates: c. 1730's
Township: Franklin Twp.
Watersource: Capoolong Creek (Cakepoulin Creek).

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Pittstown Feed Mill / Bodine Lumber Co.

About 5 miles south of Exit 15 of I-78 at Clinton, NJ, on Co. Hwy 513 at the junction with Cr 579/Bloomsbury Rd. at Pittstown across Cr 513 from the Hoff Mills Inn & Pub.

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Pittstown Feed Mill / Bodine Lumber Co.

The 35'X 40' fieldstone mill structure now known as Pittstown Feed Mill was once called Hoff Mills, as evidenced by the nearby Hoff Mills Inn & Pub. The community was named Hoff Mills from the 1770's. The mill was built in the 1730's by Moore Furman, who also built the original Hoffs Mills Inn. He built the mill when he was Deputy Quartermaster for the Continental Army as a grist mill and also for storage of arms. In the 1770's It was Charles Hoff Jr's Mill and also Century Flour Mills. The mill, using one overshot wheel, was bought by Mercer Bodine in the early 1900's, who switched operations to become the Bodine Lumber Co., a dealer in feed, lumber and hardware. Clifford Eichlin married Mercer's daughter, and operations continued into the 1950's, when Robert bodine Eichlin joined the firm. The mill was sold in 1982 and is today an equestrian specialty store and tack shop.

Pittstown Feed Mill / Bodine Lumber Co.

The 2.5 story structure, check picture of the rear of the building, has incorporated several frame additions through the years since being built. The addition ,to the right from the front, was the office prior to 1948. It is now a feed mill in the small, rural community of Pittstown, the main mill structure being titled the Tack Room primarily attuned to horse needs and small farm animals.

Pittstown Feed Mill / Bodine Lumber Co.

The Hoff Mills Inn & Pub is an imposing fieldstone structure of 3.5 stories and about 5 bays wide. Both the Inn and the mill are in excellent condition.

Pittstown Feed Mill / Bodine Lumber Co.

The Hoffs Mill Inn was built prior to 1762, probably about the same time as the mill was built in the 1730's, by Moore Furman. Charles Hoff Jr. aquired it and sold it in 1762. There were various owners through the years. The inn was remodeled in 1801 and then burned in 1913. It was rebuilt, looking much the same as in 1801, as the fire affected mostly the interior. Still a prosperous enterprise in the 21st century.

 
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