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The image below is of a poster dated August 1865 when the building now housing the Bucks County Playhouse along with the buildings that are now The Golden Door Gallery and the Parry Mansion were up for public auction. The property had been under the ownership of Benjamin Parry who had recently died. The buildings were being sold for the continued purpose of using them as a grist and saw mill. The text of the poster featuring the selling points of the buildings is below.
"The Mills are located on the bank of the Delaware, at the mouth of and propelled by the waters of the Great Ingham Spring Run and Aquetong Creek, affording ample water at all seasons of the year. The Flour Mill is large, with good roof and otherwise in tolerably good order. The machinery consists of an Overshot Water Wheel, with 3 run of stones, and the necessary machinery for manufacturing grain either for Grist or Merchant work. The Saw Mill has been recently repaired and new gearing put in, now in good order. It has for many years been connected with a general Lumber establishment, and has a convenient Log Yard attached. The mill dam was destroyed by the late disasterous freshet, which also occasioned some other damage." And the last paragraph reads: " This property is held by several heirs, most of them females, located in different places, who are induced to sell even at a great sacrifice, if necessary, in order to settle the estate, which they were making arrangements to do previous to the freshet. To a business man desiring Water Power for any kind of manufacturing purpose, this is the most desirable of any in the market, as it is located in a thriving village and thickly settled country, with a canal on each side of the Delaware River, and the Belvidere Delaware Rail Road, affording facilities for communication with Philadelphia and New York, and for the transportation of freight at all seasons of the year; in addition to which there are two daily mails each way, and also telegraphic communication."
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