Stony Brook Gristmill Photo Art
by Constantine Gregory
Title
Stony Brook Gristmill Photo Art
Artist
Constantine Gregory
Medium
Photograph - Photo Art
Description
The Stony Brook Grist Mill in Brewster,on Cape Cod dates back to 1663 when Thomas Prence, governor of the jurisdiction of New Plymouth, had a water-powered gristmill built on the brook. The rational was that the availability of a corn-grinding mill would attract homesteaders into this sparsely settled area.
By 1665 enough people had settled the area to create a demand for a fulling mill, which was built across the road from the gristmill, sharing the brook�s waterpower. Settlers brought home-made woolen cloth to be cleaned and pre-shrunk so it could be sewn into garments. This service was so important that, at one time, there were 5 fulling mills on Cape Cod.
In 1760 the fulling mill was destroyed by a fire and over the next 100 years a number of mill transitions occurred on the site,involving conversions to a new woolen mill that operated some of the first in the country power-drive looms, to a cotton weaving mill in 1847, and a paper mill in 1855.
In 1871 a fire apparently caused when the miller was smoking herring in wooden barrels inside, burned the gristmill to the ground.
In 1873 the present Stony Brook Gristmill was built on original fulling mill foundation, using recycled lumber from dismantled salt works.
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