Gomez Mill House

Gomez Mill House

Gomez Mill House
• 11 Mill House Road, Marlboro, NY 12542.
• Phone: (845) 236-3126.
• Hours: Wed.-Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• View a film on the history of the occupants and tour the house, mill and grounds. Tours begin at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
• Admittance: $7.50 adults, $5.00 seniors, $2.00 students.

Did you know that the oldest extant Jewish house in North America sits just off Route 9W on the Ulster County-Orange County border?

Probably not, since the Gomez Mill House -- founded by a Sephardic Jew, Luis Moses Gomez, as a fur trading post in about 1714 -- has long been one of the region's best-kept historical secrets.

"It is one of the most unique and beautiful sites in the area and reflects the rich history of the area through all the families that have occupied it," says Robert Jacobs, president of the Gomez Foundation for Mill House and caretakers of the property since 1984.

It has been home to patriots during the revolution, artists, gentleman farmers, statesmen and, in the early 1900s, papermaker and writer Dard Hunter, who established the paper mill that still sits on the site.

It's the oldest house on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County.

The Gomez Mill House is the oldest extant Jewish house in North America.

Today, the site provides tours for thousands of visitors and school children annually.

For more information about the site, call site director William Maurer at (845) 236-3126 or write Gomez Foundation for Mill House, Marlboro, NY 12542.

, Poughkeepsie Journal .
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