Ross' Mill, Bridgetown

     I bought this 20"x16" photo of Ross' Sawmill from Moe's Auctioneering Service yesterday.

     I took these up-close images of the photo - appears to have just had a new board-n-batten roof.

     More than twenty years ago I was contacted by a family member ( who was born and raised in Boston ) about re-building a house to match the family home that was still standing at Ross's Mill - it was not restorable.   We documented the house and produced drawings. Below are photos I took that day of the house and barn - both have long since disappeared.

     The following information comes from www.islandlives.ca.

THOSE WERE THE DAYS: 

A history of the north side of the Boughton River. 

Page 68.  

Hayden's Mill, Vernon River

     Here's a great photograph of Hayden's Mill at Vernon River posted on the Facebook page of Earls Picture Restoration.

https://www.facebook.com/EarlesPictureRestoration/photos/a.140276459512153.1073741826.140204746185991/333913210148476/?type=1&theater

The following are Facebook comments posted about the mill...

“ The mill was owned by John Furness Hayden, son of James Lewis Hayden and Margaret Furness. The mill was on the site of the present Vernon River dam. The buildings are all gone now, but the house and barns on the hill belonged to John and his brother Lemuel and their parents. The house is still standing as is the barn on the left. Gordon Ross and Mac MacLean had a mill around the same site possibly across the road.” - Gordon Furness