THE PUDDIN’ MILL

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
Industry & Commerce
Location
East side of Willowdale Road, near intersection of NYS 174 at the head of the gulf leading into Otisco Lake, Spafford, NY
Lat/Long
42.87733, -76.325659
Grant Recipient
Town of Spafford
Historic Marker

THE PUDDIN’ MILL

Inscription

THE PUDDIN’ MILL
GRIST MILL FOUNDED BY
AMOS MINER
IN THE EARLY 1800’S
CORN GROUND FINE ENOUGH
TO MAKE CORN PUDDIN’
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION

Amos Miner was born in Connecticut in 1776 and learned the wheelwright trade. After 1805, Miner erected a saw and grist mill about midway between Skaneateles and Otisco Lakes, a mill known ever since as the “pudding mill.” According to the local historical society, the mill was still in existence in the early 1900s and part of the old carriage shed is still on the site.