Bunker Hill Mill

The limestone walls of this flour mill, largely rebuilt after an 1887 fire, occupy one of the state's earliest mill sites and may incorporate portions of a gristmill established by 1738. The capacious roof that caps the three-story walls contains two additional stories, lit by windows in the gable ends. The mill operated commercially until 1964, and its equipment is intact. The miller's house, a brick building of c. 1840 with a recessed two-story porch in the ell (a typical regional feature), stands nearby. The buildings, along with the adjacent millrace and millpond, present a handsome grouping in their rural setting. A number of other mills were built along appropriately named Mill Creek in the eighteenth century, but most were destroyed in the Civil War.