This came from Tom Dunn of the Hardwick Historical and since it had a couple of names I have recently seen on some website I thought I would copy to various ones.  I really love Tom's posting of Hardwick, VT history and all the facts that his cohort Lorraine Hussey researches with him and they write about. Harriet (QUINN) Cady, former Hardwick resident   Robie’s Mill   Soon after the turn of the century (1800), a Quaker by the name of Willard Bugbee, came to town on horseback from Connecticut with his wife and baby seated on the same horse behind him.  He decided to locate here and the first saw-mill and grist-mill were built here by Willard Bugbee, who also put in a carding machine.   Mark Goss bought and rebuilt the grist-mill about 1828. H. G. (Herman) Swerdfeger bought it in 1873.  In 1901, L. H. Pendleton owned it.  The Souvenir Edition of the Hardwick Gazette, dtd December 27th, 1900: “L.H. Pendelton bought the grist mill at this village of H.G. Swerdfeger and Son in November.  The grist mill is the oldest established business in Hardwick village.  He handles flour, feed of all kinds and staple groceries.  The mill is equipped with modern grinding machinery and does a large amount of custom grinding.  He employs two and sometimes three men.  He ships large quantities of feed to nearby towns, etc.” In September, 1903, Pendleton sold to L.S. Robie who owned it until his death in 1944.  Arthur Thompson was the next owner and he sold part of the land to Jerry Janicki who built a diner, now the Village restaurant.  Gerard Renaud was the last owner who operated a feed store there.  Waldo Bemis bought “the old eyesore” and had Clark Hastings demolish it in 1958.  While being torn down, six new horsewhips were found in the partitions.  Glen Slayton, who was watching the demolition, laughed and said he had shoved them down the partitions after his father, Herman Slayton, who had a store in the mill, had used one on him for being very late delivering a customer’s grocery order.  He was given one of the whips.   The site is now the village parking lot.   Source:  Anna Spaulding, Hardwick Gazette , Lorraine Hussey     Researched by Lorraine Hussey