Dexter's Grist Mill
Thomas dexter's Grist Mill - One of the oldest mill sites existing in the United States today, Dexter’s Grist Mill, has Plymouth Colony Records dating back to 1640 in which Thomas Dexter was allocated 26 acres and 6 acres for his mill. An absentee mill owner, Thomas Dexter lived in Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1646, Thomas Dexter, Jr. was the miller. March 1 1653, there was a town meeting to discuss the reconstruction of the mill due to damage from a broken dam. It was not until June 26, 1654 that a town agreement was reached to rebuild the mill with Thomas Dexter Jr. Thomas Dexter’s son John inherited the mill in 1686. John Dexter sold the mill to Seth Pope Senior in 1700 and moved to Portsmouth, Rhode Island. In 1800 a fulling mill, used for carding wool and treating woolen cloth, was constructed just east of the gristmill on the dam. It was torn down in 1830. In 1856 a new mill building replaced the old woolen mill and manufactured marble stone products. An iron turbine replaced the wooden waterwheel in Dexter’s Mill in 1856.
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Location: Sandwich, Massachusetts
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Keywords: dexter, grist, massachusetts, mill, sandwich, thomas
