B-5-6
This structure was built in 1855 likely as the mill office and crew quarters for the steam powered sawmill 100 yards to its east at B-5-7. The main house is almost square and it has a long, rectangular “ell.” Perhaps the house was the office/kitchen and the “ell” housed the crew. There’s a well and the outline of an outhouse. Ornate cast iron stove parts and the remains of a pint flask confirm the sites date as mid nineteenth century.
It was not in use much after 1866.
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Flask
Stove parts