New Hope Mills Historic Grain Mill Stock Photography

New Hope Mills started in Moravia, NY as a flour mill servicing the local farming community in 1823. Although the mill is no longer used for producing flour, New Hope Mills can operate much the same as it did in the 1800’s. The mill is being preserved with operations intact, with the goal of an operational museum. A long time ago in America, the land was covered with grist mills. These water-powered mills were built next to a swift river where the current from that river turned the water wheel, which turned the heavy stones, which ground the corn into cornmeal or the wheat into flour for baking and cooking. In 2005, the mill and the saw mill up stream were both added to the New York State and National Register of Historical places.