Arlington Mills and Water: A story of ingenuity and wealth.

Brooks, streams, and rivers were the circulatory system supporting the growth of new towns in the New Hampshire Grants. While Arlington, Sandgate, and Sunderland forests provided a seemingly limitless source of raw material, the various mills transformed the forest into income for the early settlers.

This presentation will examine the growth of Arlington's early mill-based industries. We will identify some sites, what remains today, and why they have disappeared.

Talk by local historian Bill Budde, Curator of the Russell Vermontiana Collection.

To be held in the Performance Hall at the Arlington Common. Free to the public.