Cider Mill
Photo of water powered mill off Lowell Road, near the Captain Pelatiah Fletcher house, and next to Cider Mill Pond (Tadmuck Brook). The original mill, to the left, was originally built in the late 1700s, and was used for grinding grains, among other purposes. The larger building, a cider mill, was built by Daniel Sheehan (1864-1944), after purchasing the property from Edgar H. Clapp (1839-1901) in 1887. The property was then sold to William R. Taylor in 1945.
The dam that powered the mill, as well as the mill’s foundation, still exist today. The land was acquired by the Westford Conservation Trust by 1984, becoming the Cider Mill Pond Conservation Area. Today, public trails, which partly follow the original roads, cross the remnants of the old mill.
For more information see Westford Conservation Trust.
Photograph
Black and white, matted
W.1984.2.5