It includes a substantially complete water-powered 19th-century grist mill dating back to 1820, with a later sawmill added about 1870.

The mill building has as its core a 1+1⁄2-story brick structure, built about 1820 as a gristmill, to which a larger wood-frame sawmill was added about 1870.

Across Spring Street from the mill is a 1+1⁄2-story brick building, built about 1803 as a blacksmith's shop, and since significantly altered to serve as a residence.

The mill interior includes operable 19th-century equipment, which can be powered by a turbine installed in the first half of the 20th century.

[2] The mill stands on a site that has seen industrial activity since the 1780s, which was seen as advantageous due to the cascade created by a topographic constriction in the river flow at this point.