The Olde Grist Mill pictured here, built by Thomas Perkins in 1749, was lost to arson in 1994. The Kennebunkport Conservation Trust would like to rebuild it as the River Heritage Educational Center, members said recently.
“In former days the farmers and people from miles around brought their grain to be ground into much needed flour. Interested visitors to the mill, which is now operated as a summer tea-room, are shown the massive circular mill stones that did the crushing and the primitive wooden mechanism that operated the mill.” Herbert G. Jones, “King’s Highway from Portland to Kittery,” circa 1953
— Submitted by Kennebunkport Conservation Trust
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