A winter view of the Old Town Mill in New London, Connecticut, with a large water wheel, icicle-covered rocks, and a red-roofed mill building among bare trees. The message calls it "an old mill built about 1650 and is running yet" and describes a thirteen-mile trolley ride from Norwich that followed the Thames River for the last five miles. The Thames River shore at New London was the course for the Yale-Harvard boat race.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Dear friend Bessie
I am stopping at New
London Conn. away from
Norwich by trolley it is
a thirteen mile ride, and the
last five miles you go right
along the shore of the Thames River
this is where they hold the Yale +
Harvard Race. and on the other
side of this card is a picture of an old
mill built about 1650 and is running yet. Your
PostmarkedNew London, CT, September 12, 1911, 11:00
Linen texture; no white border; printed caption at bottom: OLD TOWN MILL, NEW LONDON, CONN.
Postmark: NEW LONDON CONN. SEP 12 11-AM 1911 (also a N.Y. 4 PM 1911 receiving mark, with '13' above).
Undivided-back card (back headed 'THIS SIDE FOR ADDRESS ONLY'), printed in Germany; publisher H. D. Utley, New London, Conn. Light edge wear and small corner creases; dealer pencil marks '3- CT-L / C' at top left. Writer struck through a word after 'Norwich' in the message.
Cite this card
Old Town Mill and water wheel, New London, CT, 1911, postcard, c. 1911. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/old-town-mill-and-water-wheel-new-london-ct-1911. Accessed November 2, 2026.
