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mill site Hist. 
a piece of land on which a flour mill was or could be built; specifically, a lot granted to a person who undertook to build and operate a flour mill there.
See also: mill-grant land mill lot mill seat water privilege (def. 1)
- 1825 There is also unoccupied Mill-Scites on the Credit . . . sufficient to drive a number of Mills and Machines.
- 1833 (1926) . . . I bought about 300 acres . . . including the creek, which McDonell, the agent at Peterborough, who knows the country well, tells me has a fall of 20 feet, a good mill site.
- 1956 Earth and stones had been bulldozed to the water's edge to form a millsite.
- 1825 There is also unoccupied Mill-Scites on the Credit . . . sufficient to drive a number of Mills and Machines.