Robert Sherman Windmill

The windmill is perhaps the most impressive. It is a smock style mill built originally in 1812. It has four vanes for sails and somewhat uniquely, two sets of stones. The mill was restored by NRF in 1971 with additional work done in the 1980s and a new shaft installed in 1998. The mill was built and used in Warren, RI in connection with a distillery. It was then moved to Fall River, MA and worked there for several years. In the late 1860s, early 70s, Robert Sherman acquired and moved the mill to Quaker Hill in Portsmouth (East Main Road). The mill was moved once more, this time to Lehigh Hill (West Main Road), again in Portsmouth. It became idle in the early 20th century and remained so, in ever deteriorating condition, until NRF, in 1969, acquired and moved the mill several miles south on West Main Road to Prescott Farm. The mill is known as the Sherman Mill.