Ben's Mill Trailer

The Thresher Mill is the lone survivor among numerous small mills that once drew water power from the Stevens River and its tributaries in the self-sufficient community of Barnet, Vermont, in the 19th century. It continues to operate by water powered turbine on the south bank of the Stevens River as it falls to the Connecticut River in this northeastern Vermont town. It is architecturally significant as a working industrial component of the elaborate agricultural network carried over from the economic and social world of the Barnet Center Scotch settler/farmers of the 19th and early 20th centuries when subsistence farming, village life, and small local mils were indissolubly linked.

This trailer is from the hour long, 1970s PBS documentary film "Ben's Mill" distributed by Documentary Educational Resources (www.der.org).

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• mill
• vermont
• new
• england
• wood
• work
• 19th
• Century
• Industrial
• craft
• folk
• art
• water
• power

[HockeyMetalRPG]

No it's just a museum now. Dedicated to Ben and the mill.

[HockeyMetalRPG]

Ben's Mill is about 3 miles from where I grew up in Barnet VT. I remember Ben. This movie was made in 1980-81 if I remember I was 10 when they were filming. RIP Ben.

[ericbigmanbrien]

Looks interesting. Mordern society has forgotten the word "Craft".