Skene's Mills
The marker is located at water's edge behind Finch and Chubb Restaurant, 82 No. Williams St, Whitehall, NY
This marker commemorates the sawmill owned by Phillip Skene which was utilized to saw plank for the construction of Arnold's Valcour fleet. Lock 12 of the Champlain Barge Canal, which was built in place of the Wood Creek Falls, was the actual location of the mill (just south of the marker.) To see the marker, you must walk into the backyard dock area of the restaurant. See their website: http://www.finch-and-chubb.com/home.htm If you look carefully at the website's view of the restaurant from the water, you can just make out the blue historical marker. (It is very tiny in the photo.)
Read MoreThis marker commemorates the sawmill owned by Phillip Skene which was utilized to saw plank for the construction of Arnold's Valcour fleet. Lock 12 of the Champlain Barge Canal, which was built in place of the Wood Creek Falls, was the actual location of the mill (just south of the marker.) To see the marker, you must walk into the backyard dock area of the restaurant. See their website: http://www.finch-and-chubb.com/home.htm If you look carefully at the website's view of the restaurant from the water, you can just make out the blue historical marker. (It is very tiny in the photo.)
