Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Windsor Mill Road" in English language version.
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Among the many interesting and old thoroughfares still jutting across the Baltimore Metropolitan area is Windsor Mill Road, an ancient artery dating to the mid-19th Century. Despite its existence for many decades, the road is not too much changed from its earlier days, an especially remarkable feat when one considers the many examples of development and sprawl that have sprung up around the roadway.
Windsor Hills derives its name from the Windsor Mill, an 18th-century grist mill that was located on the Gwynns Falls, probably at the Windsor Mill Road bridge. The site of this bridge was described in 1757 as "William Miller's Ford", implying the existence of a homestead that may have included a mill. The date of construction of this long-vanished mill is unknown, but first appeared in documents, as being for sale, in 1784. At about that time the Windsor Mill was described as a three story structure with three waterwheels. The mill was last mentioned in documents in 1818, and soon thereafter a mill downstream, in today's Rosemont area, took the Windsor Mill name. Windsor Mill Road obviously also derives its name for this mill, although it existed as a nameless local thoroughfare connecting farms west of today's Dickeyville area with the Garrison Road, as early as 1730.
