Smith & Allen Woodworking Mill
Addison Co. | Vermont | USA
Watersource: Otter Creek.
Smith & Allen Woodworking Mill
The address is 1 Mill Street at the end of Park St., Middlebury, Vt. off the east side of Sh 30/Sh 125/Main Street at Otter Creek in the same proximity as Star Mill and Frog Hollow Old Stone Mill.
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Clinton G. Smith and William H. Allen, a prominent architectural & Contracting Co., had their offices and mill in this building from 1877-1899.
Then from 1900 - 1953, Ike L. Rodgers & Clarence C. Wells ran a house finishing and building supply business out of the old mill.
A boardwalk near the rear of the mill gives access to the waterinlet and gate area.
The concrete bracket suggests a possible large penstock supplied the water of Otter Creek to not only this mill, but also to the Star Mill and the Frog Hollow Mill.
The gate valve apparatus that opened and closed the water flow through the penstock behind this mill.
The mill provided housing for an art studio, The Edgewater Gallery in 2012. It is not commonly know what purpose the mill served prior to 1877.GPS: 44' 0.79'N, 73' 10.17'W ele.348'/106 meters Middlebury Quadrangle