In 1936, George Holden, a farmer from Lansing, donated a mill pick—used to sharpen millstones—from the Jim Ford Mill to the newly re-established DeWitt Historical Society, now The History Center in Tompkins County. Decades later, Robert and Margery Clauson of Alpine, New York donated two conveyor buckets from the Old William Haskin Grist Mill, along with photographs and related documents. While researching these materials for an upcoming exhibit, “The Power of Water”, we made a surprising discovery…