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Hood is a populated place that is located in New Hope, a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.[2]
The site features ruins of the Robert Heath Mills, a grist mill built in the early 1700s.[3]
The original name of this community was Springdale.
Hood has an estimated elevation of 108 feet (33 m) above sea level and is located at the intersection of Mechanic Street and Sugan Road. Located near the settlement are Aquetong Creek and New Hope and Ivyland Railroad.[4]
[A] thousand acres of land were surveyed for a man named Robert Heath in 1700, covering the site of present-day New Hope. ... Robert Heath may well have chosen the location of his land grant because it included a stream that came to be known as Ingham Creek (from the name of a prominent landowner a century later), which provided a strong enough flow to power mills. ... A local road leading to Heath's mill is still called Sugan Road, so called for the "suggans" or saddle-bags used by farmers riding on horseback to carry their grain to the mill for grinding