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Touring the William Beard barn site at the Stone farm. The barn burned in 1935.

Cellar Site Tour

September 13, 2025

Here are links to a number of the resources we mentioned during our tour of the Page and Hadley Mill at Kimball Pond and the William Beard house and barn site at the Stone Farm.

Kenyon’s Grist Mill video — Just remember, ours did not run on electricity like the one in the video. There was a whole complicated water-powered drive system that turned the water wheels to power the gears, mill stones and saw blades at the Hadley Mill.

Granite Splitting Tools and Techniques handout

Dunbarton population trends

Hadley Mill photograph

William Beard home photograph

Stories of the Stone Farm

Discussing the Hadley & Pages’s Mill Worker house site at Kimball Pond. The house burned in 1880.

Judy Stone explaining the history of the Stone Farm. Her family has lived on the farm for five generations.

The scale of the barn foundation is apparent in this photo of Conservation Commission members Darlene Jarvis and Drew Groves.

Dunbarton cellar site tour →
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The 13 Wonders of Dunbarton

The Bela Brook Conservation Area (Grapevine Road)

Kimball Pond Conservation Area (Kimball Pond Road)

Kuncanowet Town Forest and Conservation Area (Holiday Shore Drive)

Winslow Town Forest (Stark Lane) 

Stark Cemetery (Mansion Road)

Hopkinton Everett Flood Control Area (Everett Dam Road)

Long Pond (Long Pond Road)

Purgatory Pond (Purgatory Pond Road)

View from Burnham Hill (Rt. 13)

Rogers and Putney home sites (Robert Rogers Road)

Highest Point in Dunbarton and view from Mills Hill (Rt. 13) 900 feet).

Biggest boulder in Dunbarton (off powerlines on east side of Kimball Pond Rd.)

Geographic Center of New England (Stone Farm, Guinea Rd.)

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