Mill Community Record East Haddam
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- Johnsonville
- Address or Location
- 45 Johnsonville Road, East Haddam
- Specific Location
- Along the west side of Johnsonville Road, just south of its intersection with Neptune Avenue.
- County
- Middlesex
- Historic Designation
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n/a
- Associated Mill Complexes
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
Three.
Dates of Construction
ca. 1800, 1842, ca. 1900
Housing Types
Brief Description
Associated with the Neptune Twine and Cord Mills, Inc. (#4115). Consists of three single-family wood-frame houses located along the west side of Hawthorne Avenue that were built by the Johnson family, owners and operators of several local mills, among them being the Neptune Twine and Cord Mills, Inc., the former office of which being located at 42 Johnsonville Road. The Italianate-style house northwest of the office was built in 1842 and was the home of Emory Johnson, who later passed it to his son, E. Emory Johnson. The younger Johnson operated the mill until his death in 1905. The other two residences housed mill workers, however, the village of historic buildings that surround the three residences built by the Johnson family were not moved to the site until the early 1960s when Raymond Schmitt, owner of the ACG Corp., an aerospace equipment manufacturer, began an eccentric project to convert the site into a kind of historical amusement park.
