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Webbs Mills, New York

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{{About|the district in New York State|other mills of this name|Webbs Mill (disambiguation){{!}}Webbs Mill}}Webbs Mills or Webb Mills^[1] is a district of Chemung County in the state of New York. It is named after the Webb family who operated mills there.^[2] Mills were first constructed on Seeley Creek by Hezekiah Dunham in 1835.^[3] The property was then bought by Festus Webb and the Webb family expanded and improved the mills from the original two runs.^[3] Henry Marvin lived there in the 19th century and kept a diary which has been preserved and published — The Plank Road Explorer.^[4] The Plank Road was a toll road from Elmira to the state line with Pennsylvania which was surfaced with wooden planks. Henry was the great-grand-uncle of the actor Lee Marvin.^[5]

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1. ^Also spelled Webb's Mills or Webbs Mill.
2. ^{{citation |title=Chemung County, its history |page=106 |year=1961 |publisher=Chemung County Historical Society}}
3. ^¹{{citation |title=Our County and Its People: A History of the Valley and County of Chemung, from the Closing Years of the Eighteenth Century |author=Ausburn Towner |publisher=D. Mason & Company |year=1892 |page=437}}
4. ^{{citation |title=Plank Road Explorer |author=Henry Marvin |year=2012 |isbn=9780983848707}}
5. ^{{citation |url=http://www.chemunghistory.com/books/plankroad.html |title=More books about Elmira and Chemung County |publisher=Chemung County History}}

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