Old Stone Mill in Touro Park

Sometimes speculated as the  the work of Vikings, built around the year 1000, or the Chinese in 1426-28, the stone mill has fascinated historians for centuries. Another attribution is to the Portuguese explorer Miguel Corte-Real built it and yet others say it is the work of the first Governor of Rhode Island, Benedict Arnold. Current thinking favors the colonial period of Benedict Arnold. Its twenty-four-foot-high walls are made of lime-mortared fieldstone and its interior is open to the sky. Arches separate the legs and small, square openings are scattered in the wall above.