Visiting the Red Mill Museum Village was like spending the day in a small New England town. It's a charming town you can just stroll through visiting the little shops and stopping for something to eat in one of the many dining options. There are wonderful photo opportunities, the Red Mill, the Victorian homes, the Christmas décor on homes, the street and stores. The Red Mill Museum Village relates the story of the mill, the quarry, the town and Hunterdon County in four floors and 40,000 permanent and rotating exhibits. The mill is a time capsule of Hunterdon Counties industrial strength and evolution told through the transiting usage from wool manufacturing, grist, flour, basket manufacturing, graphite and talc production. I enjoyed the maps of Hunterdon County drawn up during the Civil War. They have special events like wine and beer tasting, Haunted Village, American Revolutionary War Days and the Festival of Trees. I've visited the town many times and I'm a will be back.
I have visited and supported the Red Mill often. The inside of the main building has fascinating exhibits. This area had provided peaches to NYC until a blight destroyed the biz. One time I was working the Haunted Mill in October and experienced a ghostly event in one of the outbuildings. Come to the Haunted Mill in October.
I live in Clinton and although I see the Clinton Red Mill nearly every day it has been a long time since I actually went inside the museum. This Thanksgiving weekend with grandchildren in tow we went into town for Dickens Days. It was a lovely afternoon spent in the quaint town of Clinton, chatting to a Victorian Santa, Charles Dickens and Scrooge, enjoying music and of course the obligatory hot chocolate on a cold Winters Day! We decided to go into the actual Museum and what a joy.....not only old tools and scenes of Clinton gone bye but a whole floor dedicated to Christmas Trees of all types......well worth the visit! Sometimes we forget what our own "Small Town America" has to offer....come to Clinton!!
When I was a child my mother would bring me to the Red Mill. The Mill is one of my favorite childhood memories. On a recent vist to New Jersey, we took in the Mill again. It is still a wonderful place to vist and a great look into history.
Good place for photographs.Good view you would like to hang out at the patio all evening. Staff very courteous and accommodating
Most everyone I ever talk with or meet, who isn't from New Jersey, ends up talking about their image of New Jersey being the Refineries around the Jersey Turnpike and Newark Airport or the inevitable statement of "What Exit," referring to the Turnpike. Northern Hunterdon County, New Jersey is one of the fantastic places that people pay lots of money to see in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The setting of the Red Mill Museum, next to the dam, with the Hunterdon Art Museum on the opposing shore are a picture of serenity and History. The Main Street rivals any of those famous places of New England. You add in the Hills, Creeks, Roads and wander along them in the fall and you won't believe you are in New Jersey. The colors and contrasts are magnificent. While you are in Clinton, enjoy the best Prime Rib going at the Historic Clinton House, next to the Red Mill Museum Complex. Don't miss the Ken Lockwood Gorge or the trip out along the South Branch of the Raritan to get there. The Rockaway River from Mountainville to Oldwick, Oldwick itself, Hell Mountain and Califon make for a fantastic drive and less than an hour from the hubbub of Newark Airport and New York. Trust me, the fall is spectacular. Yes I am prejudiced, I grew up there, been a lot of places, but very view rival the rural beauty of the area. And none rival the the Prime Rib with Horseradish at Clinton House.
The Red Mill Museum Village has interpretive exhibits, a functioning mill wheel, great interactive tours and one of the few operating blacksmith shops in New Jersey. It's also a venue for a variety of special events that fill weekends throughout the spring, summer and fall. Well worth a visit from everyone, particularly in conjunction with a day including a visit to the Hunterdon Art Museum and exploring the quaint town of Clinton. One can even fish for trout in the river!
The Red Mill is probably one of the most photographed and painted sites in the state of NJ. It is situated on the Raritan River on the edge of the town of Clinton. A mill race and water wheel are still seen near the waterfall which powered the mill as part of the picturesque scene from the iron bridge over the river. A tour of the mill, it's gardens and shops is interesting and informative as to the history of the mill. It's well the visit to the Clinton area.
Great value! One hour tour of serial killer haunts. Quite a setup, completed with a hayride and vortex.
historically was great, the two little old lady's who work there are wonderful. and for it being July going up all four stories was not bad very well kept.