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In 1673, a gristmill was constructed by the Farmington River, and then a fulling mill for processing homespun wool. The building is now owned by Miss Porter’s School.
Read more...Hospital Rock
Hidden deep in the second-growth hardwood forest of Rattlesnake Mountain is an inconspicuous flat ledge of traprock. On it are carved 66 names of long-ago Farmington residents. This is Farmington ‘s “Hospital Rock,” and it marks the site of Eli Todd and Theodore Wadsworth’s smallpox inoculation hospital of the 1790s. It is a reminder of the terrible epidemics of another day, and of the efforts of local physicians to halt their spread.
For more information, please read this article by Dr. Charles Leach
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