Most farmers wee far apart and neighbors usually only saw each other at church on Sundays. A typical farm had a house, a barn, a fenced-in yard for the animals, a garden, and fields. Many farmers had apple and peach orchards.

Flour mills were popular along the rivers in the Middle colonies. Wheat, the most popular crop, could not be shipped to England because it would spoil. Therefore, people built flour mills where wheat was ground into flour. Flour would not spoil on the trip to England. The Brandywine Creek in Delaware provided water power for the mills. The creek, also called the Great Falls is an excellent source of water power.