Nathaniel Dustin (1814-1890). Mr. Dustin developed a foundry and machine shop near the present Reny's store. In the 1840s the foundry's owners became involved in a long-running feud with the Grist Milll's owners over the amount of water they needed to run their businesses. As technology improved, more water was needed than could be provided by the normal flow of the stream. One day Mr. Dustin's business partner George Fitzgerald was in the water at the junction of the stream and mill pond, when Warren Carr from the Grist Mill showed up. "He threatened to out me in the stream and I threatened to put him in. I told him we should take it every time under the same circumstances." This was the statement Mr. Fitzgerald said under oath at the eventual trial over the water rights on Main Street. In 1833 the fued was finally resolved in favor of the Grist Mill. In 1877, N. Dustin & Co. moved their business ot Oakland, Maine.

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