The complex also includes a farmhouse that was built circa 1828 and a Swiss bank barn that was erected in 1795.

The grist mill originally operated using an internal waterwheel system that ran off the adjacent Swamp Creek, before converting to turbine power after 1870.

[2] The property was later owned by Dr. Chevalier Jackson (1865-1958), an internationally known physician and specialist in laryngology, who lived at Sunrise from 1919 until his death in 1958.

Dr. Jackson also kept an art studio in the grist mill, where he painted nature scenes of the surrounding area.

[3] In 1977, the Sunrise Mill complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places.