Exhibits

Aqueduct

Scudders Mills - A Grist Mill, Saw Mill, Fulling Mill, and Carding Mill (also known as Gray's Mills and Aqueduct Mills)

The following is text taken from "The History of Union and Middlesex Counties of New Jersey" by W. Woodford Clayton, published in 1882 by Everts and Peck of Philadelphia, PA.

"Industrial Pursuits - An Ancient Grist Mill, Gray's grist mill, at Gray's Mills on the Millstone, in the southwestern part of the township (ed. that is South Brunswick since Plainsboro was not a separate township until 1919), is one of the successors of a mill which stood there, as is supposed, many years before the Revolution, and was for a time known as "Aqueduct Mill", on account of its proximity to an aqueduct carrying the Delaware and Raritan Canal over the Millstone River. The earliest proprietor of whom any knowledge can be gained was a man named Cooley, who was a pre-Revolutionary operator there. During the war the mill was burned, and soon afterwards was rebuilt by Cooley. After a while it was purchased by a man named Scudder, and later it had several successive owners until it was purchased by Dr. Hunt, who tore it down and rebuilt it, finally selling it to Alexander Gray, since whose death it has been owned by his widow." - page 789

"J.C. Powers has had a distillery just below Gray's Mills" - page 789

"...at Gray's Mills Charles Williamson has a blacksmith shop and E.S. Williamson has a wheelwright shop." - page 789

"Gray's Mills, at the western extremity of South Brunswick, on the Millstone River, and near the aqueduct of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, is a hamlet of six houses, named in honor of Alexander Gray, and was first settled before the Revolution, its nucleus having been the ancient grist mill elsewhere referred to. Besides the mill, there are in the settlement a wheelwright shop and blacksmith shop." - page 792

The following is text taken from "the Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey" by Thomas F. Gordon, published in 1834 by Daniel Fenton of Trenton, NJ.

"...contains a fine grist, saw mill and fulling mill and 4 or 5 dwellings". - page 174

Scudder's Mills (Front View) - A grist mill, saw mill, carding mill and fulling mill located at the Aqueduct, Mapleton Rd. - Photo circa 1900

Scudder's Mills at Aqueduct - Three Millers - Photo 10/21/1889