Hudson Mills
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This hamlet developed around the mills which were located here to utilize the great water power of the Huron River. Cornelius Osterhout built a sawmill here about 1827, followed in 1846 by a gristmill in which three men produced six thousand barrels of flour a year. Later a cider mill and plaster mill became part of the complex.
In 1882 a wood pulp producer, the Birkett Manufacturing Company, acquired the mill property. Across the Huron the remains of the Birkett mill and dam are still visible.
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