The Napanee Mills
Text from the plaque
In 1785 the Canadian government commissioned Robert Clark, a Loyalist millwright from New York, to build mills on this site. A sawmill was completed in March, 1786, and a grist-mill toward the end of that year or early in 1787. The latter was the first to be erected between Kingston and the Niagara peninsula. The mills were operated for a time by a government agent, James Clarke. In 1799 they were purchased by a prominent Kingston merchant, Richard Cartwright. They served settlers as far west as the Trent and formed the nucleus of the thriving community of Napanee.
Transcribed from the marker, not summarised.
Find the place
The County of Lennox & Addington
The Town of Greater Napanee
In Napanee, in Springside Park south of the
Road 2 bridge over the Napanee River
beside the waterfall on the river
Also recorded for this place: The Town of Greater Napanee
N 44 15.042 W 76 56.744
Recorded December 2010. Check current access before visiting.
Visitors' notes
February 23, 2014
I just found out that Robert Clark was my 5 times great-grandfather. Pretty cool. Jeff Bentley, Cold Lake, Ab