Mill - Dard Hunter Mill

Newburgh, NY - This is the Dard Hunter Mill, but many call it the Gomez Mill. Across the street is the Gomez mill house, due to the Gomez's living there, so by association the mill was named after the house and vice versa. The house was built in the 1600's, but the mill was built in 1913 by a guy named Dard Hunter. Dard was a paper maker and made books and watermarks on a very small scale. Taking cotton rag and using the mill to pound the life out of it, then turned the mash into paper. Today it serves as a quaint building, built to look like a Devonshire cottage. He used local bricks and repurposed old barn wood for the rest. The roof is re-thatched every 25 years.