history

Ivy Mills, located in Glen Mills Pennsylvania is listed on the national register of historic places. It encompasses the ruins of a paper mill erected in 1729, a clerk's house built circa 1830, and the Ivy Mills Mansion House built 1744. Thomas Willcox was a friend of Benjamin Franklin and was known to have made paper for him. Willcox received the first order for paper used in the production of colonial and continental currency. After 1775, the mill was devoted almost entirely to making government paper for the continental bills, loan certificates and bills of exchange. At the time of the American Revolution, the government depended entirely on Ivy Mills paper for currency.

In 1995 the property was saved from demolition, below is a video of the before and after.