Is anyone familiar with the Machins Mills site?

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  lakeshore Posts: 178 ✭✭

  July 20, 2011 11:39AM

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  NewEnglandRarities Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭✭

  July 20, 2011 11:41AM

  
  
  << <i>My fiancee' grew up on Orange Lake, and I was wondering if any of the original Machins Mills site is still there. Has anyone in this forum ever done a field trip? If you have, can you give us some landmarks or directions to the location?
  
  She grew up just down the road from what is now O'Malleys. Does anyone here have any first-hand info? >>
  
  
  
  To my knowledge the original mint building is on privately owned land now. In the early 90s two colonial collectors asked permission to view the spot and were granted access. They took some pictures. I believe some timber possibly from the building still existed. Also, one of the walls was partially there as well as the foundation.
  
  The book, Forgotten Coins of the American Colonies by William Anton and Bruce Kesse shows pictures of the original mint site and the surrounding area.
  
  

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  lakeshore Posts: 178 ✭✭

  July 20, 2011 11:54AM

  In the 1992 book Forgotten Coins of the North American Colonies by William Anton and Bruce Kesse, they describe a visit to the Machin's Mill site, including photos of the remaining fieldstone wall about 15 feet wide and 5 feet high; with stone rubble on the opposite bank of the canal bank. More recently, on July 5 and 6 of this year in the Colonial-coins Yahoo group, they were discussing the Machin's Mill site and marker starting with message 87762.

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  oreville Posts: 12,292 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 20, 2011 2:29PM

  
  
  << <i>She grew up just down the road from what is now O'Malleys. Does anyone here have any first-hand info? >>
  
  
  
  Well, O'Malleys is now known as the Lakeview House. It is a lovely restaurant. The pictures below are of the restaurant facing Orange Lake, once known as Machins Mills Lake.
  
  I highly recommend a visit to the area as well as the restaurant.
  
  
  
  
  
  A picture of the area about 100 years ago:
  
  

  A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!

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