Baldwin's Mill is a historic

grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

and national

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located near Pittsboro,

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. The district encompasses one contributing building and three contributing structures. The mill was probably built by 1807, is a 1 1/2- to -story, heavy timber-framed structure approximately 30 feet by 40 feet. Associated with the mill are the mill dam, and mill and tail races. The property also includes a stretch of roadbed dates to about 1820, a blacksmith's shop site (c. 1880), and two log cabins (c. 1830) moved to the property in 1975. The mill ceased operation in the late 1920s. It was restored to working order in 1941. It was listed on the

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in 1986.

References

Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Chatham County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Chatham County, North Carolina Pittsboro, North Carolina Blacksmith shops {{ChathamCountyNC-NRHP-stub