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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a piece of land on which a flour mill was or could be built; specifically, a lot granted to a person who undertook to build and operate a flour mill there.

See: mill-grant land,mill lot,mill seat,water privilege(def. 1)

Quotations

1825

There is also unoccupied Mill-Scites on the Credit . . . sufficient to drive a number of Mills and Machines.

1833

. . . I bought about 300 acres . . . including the creek, which McDonell, the agent at Peterborough, who knows the country well, tells me has a fall of 20 feet, a good mill site.

1956

Earth and stones had been bulldozed to the water's edge to form a millsite.