Excerpt from Bolton: Some History and EventsIn 1840 there were fourteen houses in the village, 2 stores, 2 blacksmiths, 2'shoemakers, 1 tailor and 1 hotel, kept by Thos. Rogers.In 1842 James C. Bolton bought the mill property from George Bol ton and two years later moved the Mill to its present site. That was a tremendous undertaking at the time, as the big hill had to be cut through to build the race, and' a high race bank to be built right up to the old dam, but it was a great improvement as it gave the new mill a head of 13 feet while the old one had only four and a half. The new mill was a five storey frame building with two run of stones, and is now the west half of the present mill. In 1850 he built an addition to the mill as large as.the first mill, which is the pres ent mill. He also built a large cot tage and stables on the rising ground on King St.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.