The Old man-Mill (Vernon)
the Old Mill is the monument symbol of the town of Vernon in the the Eure close to the Château of the Turrets. Until 1804 it was in the commune of Vernonnet, attached since to Vernon.
The Old Mill is a single monument in half-timberings in its kind built about the 16th century with horse on the piles of the old bridge of the city which crossed the the Seine, the Pont Médiéval date of the 12th century, the mill dates him from the 16th century.
Between 1925 and 1930, the Old Mill belonged to a type-setter of reviews, Jean Nouguès, which arranged a dance hall on a moored barge in the vicinity. In 1930, it sold it with an American, William Griffin. Following the death of the owner in 1947 the city ended up renovating it following the many damages of the Second world war.
Aujourd'hui it acts of one of last the bridge with a masonry of the world . The bridge was used as decoration to the painter Claude Monet.
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