The first saw-grist mill in the township of Chester was built in 1763 on a stream by Colonel Chandler. Chandler, a Tory, left the country during the Revolution and did not return. The house on 180 acres on today’s Skyline Trail, was originally built for Zenas Searle, who was dragged to death by a team of oxen in 1803.

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