BOOK

New Hope Pennsylvania River Town Passages
by Roy Ziegler

"William Penn agreed to sell the land that is now New Hope to Robert Heath on the condition that Heath would build and keep in repair a water corn mill for the use of the neighborhood. And Robert Heath built the mill as promised between 1701 and 1702. It was the first of many mills to come over the next two hundred and fifty years..."
~ From River Town Passages,
p 7.