Stony Brook Grist Mill - Box Flume

A contributing property in the Stony Brook--Factory Village Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. This district in Brewster is a distinctive industrial village that rose to regional prominence between the late 17th and mid-19th centuries, owing its status to a prime location where the Old King's Highway crossed Stony Brook, one of the region's strongest water privileges and the site of an unusually rich herring run. Its history epitomizes the small-scale, water-powered industry that once flourished on Cape Cod, though Factory Village was larger and more diverse than most such villages before declining as it lost out to better-capitalized industries elsewhere. The area also represents one of Barnstable County's earliest conscious acts of historic preservation, with the Old Grist Mill and adjacent lands acquired for a museum in 1940, helping it survive as the region's best-preserved historic industrial village. Its period of significance broadly extends from about 1660 to 1948 (Criteria A and C).

Stony Brook Grist Mill - Box Flume is a landmark in Brewster, Barnstable County. It is one of 6,558 landmarks documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 41.7446, -70.1125 near Brewster. The nearest cataloged historic site is Stony Brook Grist Mill - Stone Lined Channel (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Stony Brook Grist Mill - Water Wheel Pond Dam, Stony Brook Grist Mill - Pedestrian Bridge #1, and Stony Brook Grist Mill - Water Wheel Pond Dam Gate.

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