The 40'X 60' stone/stucco mill rising 3.5 stories in the air was built 1819 along the west bank of the Neshaminy Creek in Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pa. Built in a Gothic Revival style, the walls in the basement/foundation are about three feet thick. The mill was renovated in 1878 after a fire in 1867 left the mill a stone shell. It was perhaps at this time that the mill was converted to the roller process, as the mill interior was rebuilt, the porch in front added, and the whole mill stuccoed.

The mill is similer in style to the Cornell / Holland Mill at Holland in the south part of the township. The Holland Mill / Millrace Inn was a restaurant that sustained much damage by Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and again the very next year in 2000. Since then, it has sat idle waiting for a buyer. The Millrace Inn is Pa-09-19-01. UPDATE: **Ian Barnes 6/13/2005--Hurricane Floyd overflowed the Neshaminy Creek in September 1999 so that water entered the mill to the 4' mark. Contributions, donations and patron support was crucial to getting the dammage repared in 6 months. The mill roof has started to leak as of early 2005 and $42,000.00 has been designated as the target amount to replace the existing roof.**

The mill was part of a grain and gas station operation in the 1920's, when Goerge Tyler, of Tyler State Park fame, took over running the mill. The mill is now considered part of Tyler State Park. It has been home to and an auditoruim for the Langhorne Players, Inc.; a small, or maybe larger by now, community theatre group since before 1983. See the website above and click on home from the mill history page to find out more about the Langhorne Players.

The mill plot was also the site of a covered bridge that crossed the Neshaminy to the left of the picture on the old highway. The Spring Garden Mill Covered Bridge burned to the ground in the 1950's. The stone parapets are still in place on each side of the creek. Could use some additional milling history on this mill.

Picture of the Spring Garden covered bridge bridge