Old Bouckville Mill
This is a shot of the old Bouckville Mill, which is now a feed store, taken from Canal Road. A little bit of history: It was founded in 1842 by Samuel R. Mott in Bouckville and was built to press Mott's cider and vinegar when he lived there. When they started out, with the help of hitched horses that went in a circle, they crushed the apples between two large stone drums and were then shoveled into cribs, packed in straw, and pressed by three men leaning on a lengthy level that operated a jack screw. The juice then ran off into a tank and was ready for bottling. As the cider caught the fancy of his neighbors, the demand grew and so did the size of the mill. As time went on water power and steam replaced the old way of using horses to power the process. They began to ship beyond the local market and in 1900 the Mott Co. meged with the Duffy Cider Co. of Rochester. At the Bouckville Mill, scientific methods for filtering and preseving cider and vineger were adopted.. This new oxidation process was employed here for the first time in the country. In the 1930s the company began to diversify and added to new products and as time went on this location was no longer needed. It is now a feed store and is located on Canal Road next to the old Chenango Canal in Bouckville, NY.
Old Bouckville Mill
This is a shot of the old Bouckville Mill, which is now a feed store, taken from Canal Road. A little bit of history: It was founded in 1842 by Samuel R. Mott in Bouckville and was built to press Mott's cider and vinegar when he lived there. When they started out, with the help of hitched horses that went in a circle, they crushed the apples between two large stone drums and were then shoveled into cribs, packed in straw, and pressed by three men leaning on a lengthy level that operated a jack screw. The juice then ran off into a tank and was ready for bottling. As the cider caught the fancy of his neighbors, the demand grew and so did the size of the mill. As time went on water power and steam replaced the old way of using horses to power the process. They began to ship beyond the local market and in 1900 the Mott Co. meged with the Duffy Cider Co. of Rochester. At the Bouckville Mill, scientific methods for filtering and preseving cider and vineger were adopted.. This new oxidation process was employed here for the first time in the country. In the 1930s the company began to diversify and added to new products and as time went on this location was no longer needed. It is now a feed store and is located on Canal Road next to the old Chenango Canal in Bouckville, NY.