On March 14, 1785 heirs of William Penn sold "a tract of land called Hope" to Abraham Oberholzer. Its description includes mention of a mill dam in a later deed.  That deed transferred part of the Oberholzer estate to John Snider in 1806.  The price was £729, two shillings and nine pence. Snider kept the property for about fory years and is known to have erected a mill below the dam.

1n 1847, upon Snider's passing, Robert Nicodemus bought the Waterside Mill, its water rights and surrounding acreage.  Two years later he sold it to Joseph B. Noble.  That was 1849.

"Judge" Noble was a well respected citizen who had taken part in community activities and projects both before and after the Civil War.  His son, William continued the business until 1866, when he sold it to Abraham Woodcock.  

We know very little about Woodcock's partner, whose last name was Curry.  Interestingly there is a Valley on the other side of Tussey Mountain named Woodcock Valley and a town just a few miles north of Waterside named Curryville.  

In 1922, Mr. Woodcock's widow transferred the property to Maurice "Dutch" Clouse.  He was the son of Herman Clouse and had spent his youth working at his father's woolen mill just upstream in Potter Creek.

In 1970 Harold Russell purchased the mill from Mr. Clouse's widow and in 1990 Todd Detwiler, Mr. Clouse's grandson bought it from Mr. Russell.