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Connecticut Water Trails

Basic Concepts

History Of Connecticut's Water Trails

History of Connecticut Mills

 

 

Connecticut Water Trails Program

History Of Connecticut's Water Trails

History of Mills In Connecticut

 

 

Chaplin Mills

 

Backus Shingle Mill

 

Also on the Stone House Brook was a Shingle Mill. All that remains mill-pond is a fish-pond.

 

Bennett Saw Mill

 

Half a mile below the Stone House Brook was the Bennett Saw Mill. Then converted to manufacture plough beams.

 

Griggs Mills (formerly the Moseley Mills)

 

About three miles above the paper mills on the Natchuag River was the Griggs Saw and Grist Mill. The mill was located in the northeast corner of the town.

 

Howard Saw and Grist

 

About one quarter of a mile below the old paper mills on the Natchuag River, was the old Howard Saw and Grist Mill.

 

Kingsbury & Bingham

 

On the Stone House Brook it was converted from a woolen mill to a box factory, and turning lathes, where they worked on both iron and wood. And it was also a Saw Mill.

 

The Ross Mills

 

This mill was a saw, grist, and shingle mill as well as a wheelbarrow manufactory.

 

 

 


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