BELLEVILLE HISTORY: PEOPLE AND EVENTS
BENNETT'S MILL
Thomas Bennett, the owner of a farm just west of Washington Avenue, operated a grist
mill on the north bank of the Second River at the end of the eighteenth century.
Bennett's Mill became the subject of a painting made by Archibald Robertson in the
1790s.
Born in Scotland, Robertson came to the United States in 1791 and opened a school in
New York City to teach painting. He painted many scenes in New Jersey. The original
watercolor painting of Bennett's Mill (above) is in the collections of the New Jersey
Historical Society.
Source: Belleville: 150th-Anniversary Historical Highlights 1839-1989 by Robert B. Burnett and the Belleville 150th-Anniversary Committee Belleville, New Jersey. 1991.
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