The Wayside Inn Grist Mill in Sudbury, MA
In our post about taking great fall pictures (How to Take a Great Fall Foliage Picture) we identified grist mills as a wonderful “prop” for taking a great foliage picture. To help you out, we thought that we would pull together a round-up of New England’s water powered mills – both grist mills and sawmills. It turns out that there are still quite a few of them left in the six state region, many dating back to the 1700s and 1800s, and one even dating back to 1654!
Following is a round-up of New England’s still operating water-powered mills:
Connecticut Grist Mills
- Brayton Grist Mill (c. 1890s) in Pomfret, CT
- Ledyard Up-Down Sawmill (c. 1870) in Ledyard, CT
Maine Grist Mills
- Bog Mill in Buxton, ME
- Grist Mill (1774) and Grist Mill Bridge in East Lebanon, ME
Massachusetts Grist Mills
- Baxter Grist Mill in West Yarmouth, MA
- Dexter’s Grist Mill (1654) in Sandwich, MA
- Gristmill at Old Sturbridge Village (1938) in Sturbridge, MA
- Jenney Grist Mill (First built in 1636. Destroyed 1837. Rebuilt in 1970.) in Plymouth, MA
- Stony Brook Watermill in Brewster, MA
- Wayside Inn Grist Mill (1929) in Sudbury, MA
New Hampshire Grist Mills
- Littleton Grist Mill (1798) in Littleton, NH
- Sawmill and Grist Mill at Sanborn Mills Farm (c. 1830s) in Loudon, NH
Rhode Island Grist Mills
- Carpenter’s Grist Mill (1703) in Perryville, RI
- Gray’s Grist Mill (pre-1700) in Adamsville, RI
- Kenyon’s Grist Mill (c. 1886) in West Kingston, RI
Vermont Grist Mills
- Grist Mill at the Vermont Country Store in Rockingham, VT
- Grist Mill Museum in Bellows Falls, VT
- Grist Mill Restaurant in Killington, VT – now a restaurant but the waterwheel is still there.
- Weston Mill in Weston, VT
