Grist Mill on Church Street

This is a photo of the Grist Mill on Church Street,. This view is as if you were standing on the side of the creek between the Bridge and the dam on the Groveville side, looking down Church Street toward Yardville. The small white bridge in the center is the raceway bridge and is no longer there. The building to the left of the bridge is the Grist Mill; there was a Saw Mill further down the Raceway. The long dwelling in the trees was a multi family dwelling where the Mill workers lived, at one time my Uncle Jack Coffee lived there. The dwelling was torn down in the early 1950’s to make way for Route 25, now Route 130.

As you follow Church Street to the top of the hill, this is where the intersection of Church Street and Route 156. Route 156 at this time it was know as the Bordentown-South Amboy Turnpike, Chartered February 16, 1816, becoming Park Street as it entered Bordentown, along the Railroad Tracks.

The road forked just past the Crosswicks Creek, the right fork was the Bordentown-South Amboy Turnpike, the left fork is now known as Hogback Road, which continued on to the Bordentown–Crosswicks Turnpike, a privately maintained road, the Toll House is still on the corner. These were the two main roads to Bordentown long before Route 130 (Route 25, before 1953).

Sorry, I get carried away, now back to the Grist Mill

Below is a receipt for grain purchased at the Grist Mill, March 12, 1918