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in the Town of Arcadia, Wayne County,

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, United States. It is located three miles (5 km) north-northeast of the Village of Newark, at an elevation of 427 feet (130 m). The primary intersection in the hamlet is at Welcher Road (CR 234) and Mud Mills Road. N.Y. Route 88 passes just north of Mud Mills. A historic -story

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(built c. 1804) is located along Ganargua Creek on Mud Mills Road. The facility remained in operation until 1969. It has been reputed that this grist mill is the last in Wayne County with the mechanics still intact.Hunt Real Estate - 6417 Mud Mills Road (property in Newark, New York)
Retrieved Feb. 5, 2015.Silas Spencer Peirson, ''The Peirson Family in Wayne County, New York'', 1917, Arcadia Advertising Company (Newark, New York), page 52
Retrieved Feb. 5, 2015.

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