1762
Beatty's Mill
George Beatty bought fifty acres on this bend of the Musconetcong around 1762 and built the first grist mill in the area.
The mill worked. A village grew up around it and took his name.
Its story is better than anything we could invent.
c. 1810
The mill that stands
Beatty's original mill burned. What replaced it, around 1810 to 1820, is the building you sleep in: four stories of stone, arched windows in the oldest sections, a turbine pit at the east end.
It ran as the S. B. Fisher Grist Mill for most of the nineteenth century.
1980s
An architect's obsession
After eighty quiet years, the mill met Charles Buckley — a Yale-trained architect who redesigned and reconstructed it as a home.
His signature move is the one you feel first: he left the original millrace flowing beneath the living room, and put a glass floor panel over it.
