Stover-Myers Mill
Welcome Center
Stover Myers Mill is the Welcome Center for the Bedminster Township region of the Route 113 Heritage Corridor Tour.
Please note: The Stover Myers Mill is temporarily closed due to restoration. The Mill will reopen in September/October 2008.
The wheels of industry first turned along this stretch of Tohickon Creek by the 1780s. Jacob Stover, founder of a prominent Bucks County milling family, built a series of new mills here in 1800 and modified it in 1834. Water from the Tohickon powered the waterwheel that turned the gears that ground the grain into flour and livestock feed. Stover kept apace with technology, upgrading to turbines and then a steam engine for power. He also operated a sawmill with an unusual "up and down" saw.
Milling was a family business. The Stover-Myers Mill eventually passed into the hands of Christian M. Myers, husband of Jacob Stover's granddaughter Eliza. Myers also understood the need to invest in technology. Around 1885 he installed roller mills to grind ever-finer flour. After Myers retired in 1904 the family rented out the mill to local millers.
Competing with huge Midwestern flour mills became increasingly difficult. Flour and lumber production at the Stover-Myers Mill ceased in 1920, but livestock feed and retail agricultural supplies kept the place in business until 1955.
Bucks County purchased the property for a public park in 1967 and eventually restored the mill, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Come see the enormous gears, millstones, hoppers, chutes and other milling equipment in this museum of local industry. Bring along a picnic to enjoy in the bucolic setting along the creek.
