Trenton Mills

The Trenton Mills, located at the South Broad Street crossing of Assunpink Creek, originated in the gristmill established by Trenton’s founder settler Mahlon Stacy in 1679. Stacy's mill was rebuilt and enlarged on several occasions and passed through the hands of several prominent owners, including William Trent, George Thomas (Governor of Pennsylvania) and Robert Lettis Hooper II. In 1784 the mills were owned by the Waln family, wealthy Quaker merchants of Philadelphia. This engraving shows the mills long after they had ceased grinding grain, shortly before they were converted into a paper mill.

[credit: engraving by George A. Bradshaw for A History of Trenton, 1679-1929]