Milldam (Concord, Massachusetts)

The Milldam was a dam which formerly blocked Mill Brook in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, near the intersection of today's Main Street and Monument Square.

Originally the site of an American Indian fishing weir,[1] in 1635, English settlers established a village beside lower Mill Brook, with a dam, pond and mill being built the following year at the Milldam. A road (Main Street) was built across the dam in 1742.[2][3] Before 1739, a diversion of water between Elm Brook and Mill Brook occurred.[3]

The Milldam pond was drained in 1828, with the dam and mill buildings demolished. Main Street was widened shortly thereafter and covered in crushed stone by the early 1880s.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Milldam Concord Massachusetts -". The Concord Experience. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
  2. ^ "Milldam". Historic Concord Massachusetts. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
  3. ^ a b c Concord's Mill Brook: Flowing Through Time – Richard T. T. Forman (1997), p. 6
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