Mill Details

Blow-Me-Down Mill

Sullivan Co. | New Hampshire | USA
Known Dates: c.1820/also 1891
Township: Cornish Twp.
Watersource: Blow-Me-Down Brook
Location / Directions

Blow-Me-Down Mill

Southwest of Plainfield, New Hampshire on Route 12A along Blow-Me-Down Brook Gorge.

Verse for Thought
"Anyone with wisdom knows what makes good sense, but fools can never make up their minds."
({Proverbs 17:24 CEV})
Blow-Me-Down Mill
Merrill Miller mid-1980's

A source book, "Early American Mills" by Martha & Murray Zimiles states mill was from c.1820. Photographs taken by my brother since restoration show the date A.D. 1891 lettered just above the lower door on a placque. The mill was first placed in Plainfield, Vt. but e-mail from a mill viewer set the mill in New Hampshire, which has since been verified by a second source. Thanks to *UPDATE: Melissa Willis, 1/26/04*

Blow-Me-Down Mill
Merrill Miller mid-1980's

Whichever date is correct for the mill's origin; it fulfilled it function as a mill, was converted into a house, allowed to deteriorate before 1973, then restored to outward appearances by 1990. I doubt if the mill is functional since all eqiupment had been taken out before the first conversion. *Update: The mill is located in Cornish, N.H. just south of Plainfield on the property of St. Gaudens National Historic Site and is administered by the National Park Service. Dan Cassedy 03/29/2007*

 
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