The Ghost of Watson’s Mill

In 1861, a year after the Mill was completed, Joseph Currier, one of the co-owners of the Mill, married a young woman named Ann Crosby of Lake George N.Y.  One month after their wedding in January, Ann was killed in a tragic accident in the Mill.  During a celebration to commemorate the first year of successful business in the Mill, her skirts were caught in a revolving turbine shaft on the second level of the Mill and she was thrown against one of the nearby support pillars and killed instantly.  Joseph Currier was so distraught by the accident that he sold his shares in the mill and left Manotick.  Ann was only 20 years old when she died.

    Reports of ghostly sightings, unexplainable sounds, and other revelations have been reported over the years, as recently as 1997.  Many sightings occur in the second floor windows during the evening, often during foggy or rainy nights.  The apparition that has been witnessed tends to be a beautiful, tall, flaxen haired young woman.