ONLY - only eight-vane smock mill ever built and operated in New England - Boyd's Old Windmill - Middletown, RI
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nomadwillie
N 41° 30.047 W 071° 16.174
19T E 310571 N 4596837
It is the only eight-vane smock mill ever built and operated in New England and one of the very few survivors in the United States
Waymark Code: WM17CHK
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 01/26/2023
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Boyd’s Eight-vane Wind Grist Mill is one of the last two survivors of more than twenty known wind mills which once worked to supply the daily needs of Aquidneck Island. It is the
only eight-vane smock mill ever built and operated in New England and one of the very few survivors in the United States. In 1810, John Peterson built this mill and a house on fifty-six acres of land near the intersection of Mill Lane and West Main Road in Portsmouth, Rhode Island and where the mill remained for 185 years.
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Type of documentation of superlative status: Middletown Historical Society
Location of coordinates: At base of the wind mill
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