Mill Details
Swayze Grist & Saw Mill
Warren Co. | New Jersey | USA
Known Dates: 1787
Township: Hope Twp.
Watersource: Muddy Brook
Watersource: Muddy Brook
Location / Directions
Swayze Grist & Saw Mill
Travel southeast of Hope, N.J. on Cr 609/Delaware Rd. for 3.5, turn left on Swayze Mill Road for 0.3-0.5 miles. The mill ruins are on the left.
Verse for Thought
"Neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase."
({1 Corinthians 3:7 NKJV})
The grist and saw mill built by Joseph Swayze Jr. in 1787 on Muddy Brook was still operating as such in 1874. The community consisted of a few scattered houses and farms. That is about all that remains today. The mill remains are several stone walls, a very well preserved penstock and deflector box, and scenic color in autumn. The mill operated with an overshot wheel with the deflector box dumping the force of the water down onto the top of the wheel.
Photo taken October 1992 by Jim Miller.
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