At the parking lot is the old Homan House, constructed as you see it now in c.1820 but originally built much earlier. The Homans received permission to build a water powered sawmill on the river just south of the first house in 1762. They later added a grist and fulling mill. Foundations of the early mills still exist – you can see them if you walk over to the river. The mill dam created Lily Lake (lower lake) across the street. The mills burned in 1919. Some old gears from the mills are propped up on a tree on the Northside of Homan House.