Reeder Mill / Johnson's Mill
Bucks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: Aquetong Creek.
Reeder Mill / Johnson's Mill
About 2 miles west of New Hope, on Pa 179 then US 202, turn left on Reeder Mill Road and go to the mill on the left, about 600' from US 202.
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The mill is a 35'X35' three story brick mill with a mansard roof (modified) on a one story stone foundation.
The mill was just starting to be remodeled in 1982 into apartments/private dwelling.
The area below the mill, including the current small brick structure and walled watercourse, in the left of picture, contained old stone foundations about a foot high in 1982.
*Update: At one point, I think in the 1870s or '80s, Eastburn Reeder had a portion of the Logan tract. On the Reeder Mill, there is an oral history on the internet, part of the New Hope -Solebury Oral History Archive, for Betty Tease, who's father was at the mill on Reeder Rd. She was born in 1914, and I think may have lived in the miller's house. She said in the 1920s it was owned by William Lorrimer. She said at that time the mill was mercerizing cotton, that the water came from the lake to the mill in a wooden pipe, and that the race came into the mill. Patty Bacon 09/11/2013*
The grist mill, still present, and the textile plant, covered over or removed ruins, were part the Ingham paper mill / industrial enterprise, only on a side branch of Aquetong Creek (Great Spring stream, Ingham Creek, or Logan Creek).
The miller's house across Reeder Mill Road from the renovated mill structure. The complex probably dates from the early 1800's,when the Ingham Spring Paper Mill was going strong. It was one of the last small grist mills to close in Solebury Twp. along with the Ellicott/Stover Mill in Carversville, doing so in the very early 1950's. Most other small southeastern Pennsylvania mills closed around the time period of the World War I thru the World War II.
Currently a garage, the building was an early building belonging to the grist mill/textile complex of Reeder, also run by a Johnson at one time.
GPS: 40D 21.36'N, 74D 58.83'W ele 128'/39 meters Lambertville Quadrangle