Paris Mill & Blockhouse
3/4 mile south of Fort Plain
(south side of the Mohawk River)
Isaac Paris Sr. purchased most of what is now the Village of Fort Plain in 1775. In 1776-1777 he built a gristmill on the Otsquago Creek. In 1780 a blockhouse was built to protect the mill and troops from Fort Plain were regularly dispatched to garrison the blockhouse. Isaac Sr. was killed at Oriskany in 1777, but in 1784 his son Isaac Paris, Jr. built the house known as the DAR Bleecker house on this lot.
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