The Podunk Mill was built in 1775 and according to local stories was a joint venture between white and Native American residents. The sawmill building on the right was later demolished, while the gristmill building on the left is now the Mill on the River Restaurant. “When I was down to Grandpa’s, he would let me ride on the wagon seat, and we would bring a bag of corn up to the old Podunk Mill to be ground into finer pieces that could be used for baby chicks or grain… The mill inside was quite interesting, because it had the great big stones that went around from water power where the water from the mill pond went down through the shoot and made the gears turn and made the grinding wheels turn.”—Sally Edlund Oral History. (Hildred Raymond Collection, WMLM.)