https://mrlocalhistory.org/oldmillinn-grain-house/ History and Gossip from New Jersey Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:13:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mrlocalhistory.org/oldmillinn-grain-house/#comment-188546 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:52:13 +0000 http://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=7577#comment-188546 Grat memories. My grandmother was Ferdinand Van Dorn’s granddaughter. Will Child’s was her husband’s brother in law. Lots of stories about the old mill and the Child’s’ restaurants. My dad worked at one in NYC flapping pancakes in the window.

]]> https://mrlocalhistory.org/oldmillinn-grain-house/#comment-164594 Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:37:02 +0000 http://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=7577#comment-164594 When the Van Dorn Mill grain house was moved across the road (Rt 202) by William Childs, my grandfather, Samuel Allen, a builder living on S.Finley Ave. helped with this historic move. Following the move, my uncle, Wallace Childs, turned the building into a restaurant
called the Old Mill Inn. As a child, I enjoyed many delicious meals there with my family, especially the Chicken Maryland! In more recent years the restaurant became The Grain House, and the Old Mill Inn name lives on as the big inn/ hotel across the big parking lot.

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