Harper's Mill is a building located on Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, Walt Disney World Resort

Walt Disney World Resort

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's Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom Park is one of four theme parks at the Walt Disney World Resort located near Orlando, Florida. The first park built at the resort, Magic Kingdom opened Oct. 1, 1971. Designed and built by WED Enterprises, the park's layout and attractions are similar to Disneyland in Anaheim, California...

 and Tokyo Disneyland

Tokyo Disneyland

is a 115 acre theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, near Tokyo. Its main gate is directly adjacent to both Maihama Station and Tokyo Disneyland Station. It was the first Disney park to be built outside of the United States and opened on April 15, 1983...

. All three have different, distinct appearances, but all of them feature a water wheel attached to, or near the building. They are all named after the character, "Joe Harper", from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the Town of "St...

and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The official name of the mill at Disneyland is Harper's Cider Mill and serves as part of the stage for the nighttime show Fantasmic!

Fantasmic!

Fantasmic! is a Disney nighttime show at Disneyland in the Disneyland Resort, Disney's Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World and Tokyo DisneySea in Tokyo Disney Resort. The show features fireworks, live actors, water effects, fire, music, several boats, decorated rafts and projections onto large...

. It is rumored that most of the mechanics needed for the show are inside the mill.

Inside the mill at The Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World there is a depiction of a scene from Disney's The Old Mill

The Old Mill

The Old Mill is a 1937 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, scored by Leigh Harline, and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on November 5, 1937...

. The gears inside the mill also "creak" to the tune of Down by the Old Mill Stream.

Lafitte's Tavern

When Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland was updated and themed to Pirates of the Caribbean

Pirates of the Caribbean

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 in early 2007, Harper's Mill became Lafitte's Tavern presumably named after Lafitte's Landing from the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction (which in turn was named after the pirate Jean Lafitte

Jean Lafitte

Jean Lafitte was a pirate and privateer in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his elder brother, Pierre, spelled their last name Laffite, but English-language documents of the time used "Lafitte", and this is the commonly seen spelling in the United States, including for places...

). The Fantasmic! stage in front of the mill is used for a pirate show during the day.