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Mystery Monday: through the mill

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 8:00am January 23 2023

Your assignment today is to identify the spot on campus where we found these one and a half millstones. Extra credit if you know (we don't!) why there are one and a half millstones here.

Filed under Mystery Monday, millstone

4 comments

  • Stewart Landefeld
    Stewart Landefeld, 10:36pm January 25 2023 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    Where - I am not sure - but are these the famous Branford millstones that came to Memorial Quadrangle by oxen? If so are they temporarily displaced?

  • Mark Branch
    Mark Branch, 8:31am January 26 2023 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    No, the millstones in the Memorial Quadrangle--one each from Branford, Saybrook, and Killingworth--are still safely embedded there.

  • George Huthsteiner '74 TD
    George Huthsteiner '74 TD, 7:19pm February 13 2023 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    <> Time for educated guess. The leafless weeping beech tree in the background suggests Farnam Gardens on Prospect Hill, not far from the Yale Farm. <> I have no idea why the half-millstone is there, but it's forlorn state suggests an area known only to the groundskeepers.

  • George Huthsteiner '74 TD
    George Huthsteiner '74 TD, 4:44pm February 27 2023 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    <> Alternative guess: Backyard of Yale President's House on Hillhouse Ave...also has a weeping beech.

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