The Mount Rose section of Rocky Hill Ridge through the community also takes its name from the gardener.

[3] The settlement was also later home to two shoe shops, a dressmaker, wheelwrights, a blacksmith, a harness shop, an agricultural implements warehouse, a post office and a steam sawmill.

Nathaniel Drake opened an applejack distillery in the village in the mid-19th century.

The Whiskey House (192 Pennington-Rocky Hill Road),[4] the office building for the distillery and the only remaining Drake building in the village, is listed on the township, state and national registers of historic places.

After 1880, Mount Rose began shrinking, due to the growth of nearby Hopewell Borough.