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This Millstone

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted September, 2006

If you enter the Distillery District south of Mill Street on Trinity Street you'll see this millstone on the right hand side of the street in front of Building 32. Here's what the attached 1953 plaque says:

Coordinates: 43.650415 -79.359720

This millstone, brought from England on the schooner 'Kingston' to the town of York 1832, was used for grinding grain in the historic windmill of Gooderham & Worts. The windmill stood 20 m southwest by south of this point. It was the eastern limit of the famous 'Old Windmill Line' on which the original plan of the city of Toronto was based.

Other Toronto plaques about mills
Early Don Mills
Early Mill Site
Gray Mill and Donalda Cattle Barn
Highland Creek Mills
The King's Mill
The Lost Village of Milton Mills
The Old Mill
Silverthorn Family and Mill Farm
Todmorden Mills
York Mills

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> Posted March 29, 2009
The windmill was a prominent feature of the Toronto skyline in its day, appearing in paintings (e.g., by John Howard of Colborne Lodge) and on illustrated maps.

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