On the Fenton River, near the village of Gurleyville in the town of Mansfield is a historic stone gristmill. Built in the 1830s of local stone, including garnetiferous schist, gneiss, granite, pegmatite and quartzite, it replaced the original mill on the site, built in 1749 by Benjamin Davis, who had also constructed a dam. Samuel Cross, father of Connecticut Governor Wilbur Cross, was the miller for many years in the nineteenth century. The mill was run by the Douda family from 1912 until it ceased operation in 1941. An attached sawmill, in operation since 1723, was destroyed by heavy snow in the early 1950s. The surviving gristmill has complete and perfectly preserved equipment from when it was last used. The Joshua’s Tract Conservation and Historic Trust (AKA Joshua’s Trust) purchased the property in 1979 and the Gurleyville Grist Mill is open to the public on a seasonal basis.
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