There is still no word on the eventual fate of the Gray's Grist Mill property in Adamsville, which was expected to be sold last Friday to an unnamed Fairhaven resident.

Eleanor Wickes, a realtor with Mott & Chace Sotheby's International Realty, confirmed Monday that the sale date has been pushed back to Thursday, Dec. 22. There is no word yet on the identity of the buyer.

It was business as usual at the popular Daily Grind coffee shop adjacent to the mill this week, but a phone number for the mill itself has been changed over the past week and now reaches George Whitley, the miller who has run the johnny cake operation for seven years.

The mill property, which straddles the state line, is one of the oldest continuously operating mills in the United States, and since 1980 has been owned by the Guild family following its purchase for $60,000 by Ralph Guild, who passed away last year.

Though the mill faces an unknown future, Guild, revered here for his work to preserve, rehabilitate and protect the property, signed a preservation restriction easement in late 2017 aimed to preserve the mill property's physical appearance through 2048.

The property, which contains the mill, coffee shop and a small office building, has been on the market for $550,000.