Cranberry Mills

This gristmill stone commemorates Cranberry Mills, the first industry in Cranbury - erected by Thomas Grubbs in 1737, on the south side of Cranbury Brook. The village, was once called Cranberry or Cranberry Town, changed its name to Cranbury late ...

Cabin from Gabriel Mills Area

This cabin of squared logs and hand-hewn limestone was built in the early 1850s near the village of Gabriel Mills (20 mi. NW). It stood on property owned in 1850-53 by Samuel Mather (1812-78), miller and blacksmith who first settled ...

Phillips Mills Baptist Church

On June 10th, 1785, 16 members met in a mill on this site owned by Joel Phillips, a Revolutionary soldier, and organized Phillips Mills Baptist Church. The Rev. Silas Mercer, leader of the group, became the first pastor of the ...

Crane’s Mills

During the bitter winter of

1779 – 1780

troops of General Washington’s Army

were cantoned at

Crane’s Mills

here, General William Irvine

established headquarters of

the Forward Defense Line

January 1, 1780

Placed by

Crane’s Ford Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

1977

Marker is on Riverside Drive west of N Union Avenue, ...

Ante-Bellum Cotton Mills 1840

About one mile west of here is the site of the Globe Cotton Factory which was erected on Cypress Creek in 1840, By 1857 its operations included three cotton mills, a flour mill, and two corn mills, all powered by ...

Star Mills

Built by Abram Brinckerhoff.

Burned 1777. Rebuilt by

order of Gen. Washington

while his soldiers encamped

at Fishkill. Later demolished.

Marker is on New York Route 52 west of New York Route 82, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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 ...

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. ...

Tredegar Rolling Mills

The Tredegar Iron Works had several rolling mills, which produced rails, bars to be made into spikes, connecting plates for rails, merchant bar iron, and plates. The Tredegar rolling mill’s most famous work was the plates made for the ironclad ...

Fort Mills

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One of the four stockade forts erected in 1756 along the North Mount Road as supports for Fort Frederick in preventing the Indians from descending upon the inhabitants living in the Cumberland Valley.

Marker is on Historic National Road (U.S. 40), ...