Most people who gather at the popular Green River swimming hole alongside Route 23 in Great Barrington have no idea that a large mill once towered nearby. The Green River Mill, above, also known as the Kellogg Mill, stood next to the Route 23 bridge. A portion of the structure dated back to the late 1740s when a fulling mill was erected to clean raw materials such as wool for making textiles. Machinery for the actual manufacture of woolens was later installed. Satinets, a finely woven cotton or wool cloth resembling satin, was also made here. About 1880, Charles Kellogg converted the building into a grist mill. The Great Depression closed the business in 1933 and after falling into disrepair, the mill was bulldozed in 1978. An arrow placed in the photograph below marks the site of the mill.
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