SITE-Lower Mearn's / Ross / Rough&Ready Mills
Bucks Co. | Pennsylvania | USA
Watersource: Little Neshaminy Creek.
SITE-Lower Mearn's / Ross / Rough&Ready Mills
South on Almshouse Road from Pa 263 at Jamison, Pa. Go 1.5 miles, turn left on Watson Road and go for 0.7 miles to junction with Rushland Road. Continue across junction on now Grenoble Road. Follow for about 1.4 miles to the junction with Walton Road. The ruins are on the right side of Grenole Rd. after the intersection along the Little Neshaminy Cr. before the abandoned, unusable Rough & Ready Mills steel arch bridge.
The Lower Mearn's Mill / Ross Mill / Rough & Ready Mills,was a fieldstone/sandstone structure 25'X 35' and 2.5 stories in height. Built in 1730, it was part of an early farmstead in Warwick Township called even today, the Ross Mill Farm. About the only thing left of the mill, is the arch used by spent waters after powering the mill to grind grain and meal as the waters sought the main body of Little Neshaminy Creek.
The plaque on the bridge wall approach to the steel arch bridge,built in 1868, beside the mill over the L. Neshaminy Cr. The bridge was closed and abandoned in 1987 and may or not be there today in 2005. The bridge over the same creek just upstream on Walton Rd. past the Ross Mill Farm was also closed and abandoned if memory serves correctly.
Photos: **October 1987 Jim Miller**