{"id":7212,"date":"2018-01-09T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/?p=7212"},"modified":"2018-01-09T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T10:10:12","slug":"the-old-mill-on-nantucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-old-mill-on-nantucket\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Mill on Nantucket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Today I want to share with you some <strong>curiosities about Nantucket<\/strong>. On my day off last week I was riding bicycle and unexpectedly not far from downtown I saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nha.org\/sites\/oldmill.html\" target=\"_blank\">Old Mill on Nantucket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was very interested to know more about it and I want to share information with you too.\u00a0The <strong>Old Mill on Nantucket<\/strong> was built in 1746 by <strong>Nathan Wilbur<\/strong>, a Nantucket sailor who had spent time in Holland, the &#8220;Old Mill&#8221; is <strong>the oldest functioning mill in the country<\/strong>.\u00a0It is the only surviving mill of the four &#8220;smock mills&#8221; that once stood overlooking Nantucket town.\u00a0<strong>Smock mills<\/strong> have a fixed body containing machinery and a cap that turns to face the sails into the wind. The Old Mill <strong>was sold for twenty dollars in 1828 to Jared Gardner<\/strong> in deplorable condition for use as &#8220;firewood.&#8221;Instead of dismantling it, Gardner, a carpenter by trade, restored the mill to working condition capable of grinding corn.<\/p>\n<p>The mill was sold once again in 1866 to <strong>John Francis Sylvia<\/strong>, a Portuguese miller of Azorean descent, who operated it for many years with his assistant <strong>Peter Hoy<\/strong> until it fell into disuse in 1892. In 1897 <strong>Miss Caroline French<\/strong> purchased the mill at an auction for $850 and <strong>donated it to the<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nantucket Historical Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will find my post interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Have a nice day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Mill on Nantucket was built in 1746 by Nathan Wilbur, a Nantucket sailor who had spent time in Holland, the &#8220;Old Mill&#8221; is the oldest functioning mill in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[433,784,811,1688,1149],"class_list":["post-7212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-curiosities","tag-architecture","tag-curiosities","tag-nantucket","tag-old-mill","tag-restoration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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