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           Vincentown was founded in 1758, but has gone by a few names in the past such as Quakertown, and Brimstone Neck. It was later named Vincent’s Town, but came to be Vincentown, because of Vincent Leeds; he was the most active out of his brothers, Philo and James, when they were all buying land. Vincent bought most of the land that Vincentown is built upon in 1743; however, additional land was purchased in 1758. Vincentown’s Post Office was granted its United States Postal Service charter...

In about 1773 there was a petition made to the General Assembly, this was to request access to build a dam that could power a sawmill and a gristmill(a machine that grinds grain into flour). The Mill was made completely operational by the year 1778.

 

The house that resides across from the mill is often referred to as the “Miller’s House. It was originally built by Nehemiah Haines about ten years after the mill was constructed. His son later inherited it in 1830 and redesigned the mill from a...