Randt's Mill / Ott's Mill
Bucks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: Tohickon Creek.
Randt's Mill / Ott's Mill
Travel 0.5 miles north of the junction of Pa 611, Easton Hwy, and Pa 413,Durham Road, north of Pipersville,Pa., turn right off Pa 611 onto Oak Grove Rd. Cross the concrete bridge over the Tohickon Cr. and the mill is on the left. The next road just past the mill and miller's house is Randt's Mill Rd.
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One of the oldest and one of six mills still existant along the Tohickon's banks, the 40'X 60' 2.5 story Randt's mill was built of rubble stone in the 1780's. The mill is in quite good condition at the present time.
The 40'X 60' stone mill is constructed of fieldstone, reds and browns, predominant in Bucks County. The orginal bridge over the Tohickon Crek here was a three span covered bridge. Check out Randt's Mill on website at www.artbygordy.com/ to see art work of mill that includes the covered bridge. Other echings of mills and early historical buildings there also.
A quite large outlet arch for the spent water opens to the south side in picture #2.
The 2 story frame house and frame barn across the road, complete with all the out-buildings was known as the original miller's residence.
The dam was on the Tohickon Cr. just about 100' north of the bridge.GPS: 40' 26.17'N, 75' 8.37'W Ele. 295'/90 meters Reading Quadrangle
The master miller's house is the one past the mill on the same side of the road. A brick house from the 1850's, it overshadows a smaller narrow house in which the miller's apprentice lived, the only such type of dwelling in Bucks County.
The farm just north of the mill cluster, a stone house and stone/frame barn, on up Oak grove Rd. was built in the 1740's by the Drissel family. They owned and operated the mill from the early 1800's thru 1865 with 3 generations of Drissels represented.