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Brooks Park - Broadbrooks, Ebenezer Millstone #1 is a historic object located at 1 Oak St in Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1780. It is a contributing property in a National Register historic district. A contributing property in the Harwich Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Brooks Park - Broadbrooks, Ebenezer Millstone #1 is a historical marker in Harwich, Barnstable County. It is one of 250 historical markers documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 41.6864, -70.0718 near Harwich. The nearest cataloged historic site is Brooks Park - Monticello Cannon (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Broadbrooks, Ebenezer Millstone #2, Brooks, Sidney House, and Gifford, Calvin Sr. - Brooks, Obed Jr. House.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Brooks Park - Broadbrooks, Ebenezer Millstone #1 in Harwich preserves a millstone from an early mill, a reminder of the water-powered grist and fulling mills that were essential to colonial and nineteenth-century town life. Recorded to about 1780. It is a contributing feature of a National Register historic district.
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