A 35'X 65' fieldstone/sandstone grist mill of 3.5 stories built in 1704 by Jonas Preston and purchased in 1777 by Joseph Jenks, an early Bucks County agriculturalist. The Jenks family was a prominent Quaker family in the Langhorne area.

Joseph built the mansion, located on the same property as the Bridgetown Mill, in 1791 and is today known as the Bridgetown Mill House. William received the house, mill, and land as a gift from Joseph. William operated the grist mill and also the fulling mill, built by his grandfather Thomas Jenks, located about one mile upstream on Core Creek.

William's son Joseph went on to run the Bridgetown Mill into the mid-1840's. A date stone over the second door on the east side reads: K.F. Jenks 1840. There could have been a rebuilding at this time.

*Update: Cropped out of the 1858 Middletown map only showing the mill pond and mill race. This mill was operated off of a dam and mill pond on Core Creek. In the days of my youth, I swam down there and jumped off that bridge into the Neshaminy Creek. About 60 years ago, parts of the old mill race still showed up. Core Creek had 6 mills on it, 3 in Middletown Twp. and 3 in Newtown Twp.; and as a carpenter, I worked on the northern most one when it was a residence. If you post that 1858 map, give recognition to the Historic Langhorne Association as I am on the board of directors. Charles W. Lauble Jr. 02/28/2009*

The two span steel girder bridge over the Neshaminy Creek just 150' east of its the confluence with Core Creek. Picture taken from old road with the mill ruins behind the photographer.

The mill sold to Samuel Comfort in 1847. In 1876, Benjamin Woodman, of Maryland, purchased the mill after the former operator, Edward Brown, was remanded to an insane asylum in New Jersey. The property and mill were under Woodman ownership up to 1953, although it ceased to operate in 1939.

The mill was purchased in 1995 by Kim & Carlos Da Costa along with the 8.2 acres remaining of the original 818 acres parcel purchased by Joseph Jenks in 1777.

The Bridgetown Mill House was opened as quality Inn in 1998, after 2.5 years of renovations; and a restaurant was opened in 2003. The mill, now only a stone skeleton of its former self, has a restoration planned for in the future.

An old Pre-revolutionary war colonial home across the street/Pa 413 from the mill complex on the SE corner of Newtown Pike/Pa 413 and Bridgetown Pike.