RIRhode Island field entry
Kenyon's Grist Mill
West Kingston, RI
A rural Rhode Island mill store where stone-ground cornmeal, flour and mixes are sold beside an 1886 grist mill that still works with original Westerly granite millstones on a milling site documented to 1696.
Kenyon's pairs direct sales of its stone-ground meals and mixes with a working historic grist mill and scheduled weekend tours.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Stone-ground food retail, a working nineteenth-century grist mill, original local granite millstones and staffing-dependent historical tours.
The same property combines current pantry retail with active heritage milling, preserved industrial machinery and public interpretation.
Kenyon's Grist Mill operates from the present 1886 mill on a site associated with milling since 1696. The business still uses original Westerly, Rhode Island granite millstones to produce stone-ground meals, flours and mixes, while its shop carries Kenyon's products and other regional goods. Weekend tours are generally offered around 1 p.m. when staffing permits, but production and tour access are not guaranteed. This is a working mill and retail stop, not a restaurant, and old event or kayak schedules are not treated as current services.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Stone-ground cornmeal
- Johnny cake meal
- Flour and baking mixes
- Working grist mill
- Westerly granite millstones
- Milling site documented to 1696
- Weekend mill tours
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