Present owners, George and Joyce Ackerman say the mill was built in 1723. This must have been an earlier mill, since the use of cement/concrete block construction wasn't heard of routinely until the late 1800's-early 1900's.

The first house was built on Staten Island entirely of concrete block in 1837, the concrete block being invented in the 1830's. This might have the present mill being built about mid 1800's across the road from a large farm known as Roxbury Farms.

The Ackermans consider the milling institution established at this mill seat by 1743, although this would have to be an earlier mill, part of the stone foundation visible at the rear by the turbine pit.

The farm was formed as a British land grant in Colonial times to the Stanard family. Joyce told me the mill was known as the Stanard Mill. The turbine pit is the low structure on the left, of the picture, fed by a culvert from the damed Po River.

The turbine pit is on the right in this photo of the rear of the mill structure.

A closer look at the old foundation of the original/or older mill that was located at this mill seat.

The turbine can be seen in the opening/outfall of the turbine pit. The water enters higher up on the right. The fall helps the plunge/flow create more velocity to turn the turbine blades.

The dam from the rear of the mill. It is located to the far left, off #4's picture.

Spotswood Milling Co. sign inside the mill. Spotswood Quality - Flour, Meal, Feed - Sold Here, There, Everywhere. The Ackermans purchased the property in 1969 and started to refurbish the mill and turned it into a Bed & Breakfast. In 2009 it is no longer a B & B. The Ackermans still live there.

A millstone lifting crane inside the mill, now restored home by the Ackermans in 1969. The crane/stone hoist is probalby set to lift up the millstone for dressing right where the stone set was located, pretty much near theshaft coming up from the turbine.

The Brulle family was milling flour and making chairs at the Roxbury mill in the 1890's. Mr. A. L. Brulle moved his business to Fredericksburg, Va. in 1929. A beltpulley/wooden flywheel, normally operating on a steel shaft, has become part of the decor as a chandelier in the Ackerman home.

AThe sign for the mill, along the lane by the mill, giving the approximate date for the beginning of milling activities at this location.