America250-Enduring Success: Kenyon’s Grist Mill

KENYON'S GRIST MILL owner Ben Drumm, right, with his father, Paul Drumm III, who is a former owner of the South Kingstown mill. PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM
KENYON'S GRIST MILL owner Ben Drumm, right, with his father, Paul Drumm III, who is a former owner of the South Kingstown mill. PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

(Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a weekly series featuring Rhode Island’s oldest companies as the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.) SOUTH KINGSTOWN – When Paul Drumm Jr. purchased Kenyon’s Grist Mill in 1971, the 17th-century manufacturing operation, which he’d found advertised as a “turnkey business,” had no

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