Old Stockbridge Grist Mill

In 1640 Isaac Stedman dammed up First Herring Brook and beside the pond thus formed, constructed the first water driven grist mill in the old colony. The mill owned and operated by the Stockbridge and Clapp families until 1922 was ...

Pioneer Mills of Cache Valley

In 1860 two grist mills were built and operated in this valley. One at Wellsville by Daniel P. Hill and the other at Millville by Esias Edwards and Leroy Kent. The first burrstones obtained from Black Rock, Utah proved to ...

Miller-Claytor House

This building formerly stood at Eighth and Church streets. It now stands one block north. It was built by John Miller about 1791. Thomas Wiatt bought the house, long known as the “Mansion House.” Samuel Claytor purchased it in 1825. ...

Battle of Milliken’s Bend

At daybreak on June 7, 1863, Gen. H. E. McCulloch led his Texas Brigade against the Union force which guarded the Union supply depot at Milliken’s Bend. In the savage fighting which ensued, the Confederates drove the Federals from their ...

Millville

In the spring of 1860, Apostle Ezra T. Benson and Peter Maughan advised the people living at the Elkhorn Ranch to locate near a sawmill built by Esais Edwards and Roy Kent. This was done to provide better protection. In ...

The Battle of Ramsour's Mill

By the spring of 1780 the war for America's independence, begun five years earlier in Massachusetts, had moved south. Following decisive victories in Georgia and South Carolina, the British army under the command of Lord Cornwallis was poised to enter ...

Windmill Point

During the War of 1812, the British blockaded the Chesapeake Bay and sent raiding vessels up the rivers and creeks to plunder and destroy property. The lookout at Windmill Point (about a mile east) on Fleet’s Island reported that on ...

Battle of Ramsour's Mill

Whig Victory over Tories, June 20, 1780. Scene 400 yards west.

Marker is on North Aspen Street south of Dixon Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Reuben Wright’s Mills

Near this site stood

Reuben Wright’s Mills,

Headquarters of General Washington

from July 20th to 25th 1778, also occupied by other Revolutionary Generals.

The mills were in Old Kensico Village now inundated by the waters of Kensico Lake. ...

Reuben Wright’s Mill

Town of North Castle

Reuben Wright’s Mill

Headquarters of Gen. George Washington

and other American

Generals during the

Revolutionary War 1776 – 80

1976

Marker is on Mt. Kisco Road (New York Route ...