Searight's Fulling Mill is a historic

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located at

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, USA. It was built about 1810 and is a 2 1/2-story,

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building with a gable roof. It measures approximately . The mill closed in the 1820s and was converted to a dwelling. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

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in 1973. The mill is named after William Searight, who built the mill on a farm previously owned by

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. Searight is credited for realizing that small fulling mills could not compete with city based factories served by railroads, and left the fulling business before his mills became unprofitable.

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