Mill buildings.

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Mill buildings.

Side view of the Blackinton Mill.

This file appears in: Blackinton Mill

By Ryan O'Keefe
In March 1822 Sanford Blackinton, Rufus Wells, and Joseph L. White built a small two story factory that stood near the road of the presentday mill.  The mill cost roughly eight hundred dollars and was fitted with second hand machinery from an old…