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The photos on this page are from Mill Island across from
Felts Mills. To see a labeled map of the area and the
island, as well as pictures from the dams and bridges near the island, refer to
this page.
Most of the ruins and artifacts on this page are from the northwestern side of
the island, and the western tip (where the bridge and mill were).
The island the
mill was on had an area of about 8 acres, and was once called Tannery
Island, nearby is Sheep Island. Later Tannery Island was called Mill
Island when the Taggart mill was built. At one time the Mill Island
was owned by James Le Ray, and over the years had a number of sawmills, a
shingle mill, a planing mill, a carding mill, a grain thresher, a cheese box factory,
and in 1858 a tannery which burned in 1882.
Likely sometime in the future
a new dam system will be built across the north channel and extend across the
south channel, thus partly covering some sections of the island with a new power
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Old photo of the papermill as it looked when running.
Please see this page
for more info about the mill.
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Satellite map (2008, courtesy of Google Earth) map
showing locations of dams, bridges, and ruins
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Taken on 04/16/09
Rollers
used to grind the wood for papermaking
*Jack S writes "This is a carthage grinder. It was used to grind pulpwood into
wood pulp in a papermill. The 'rollers' that you see in the abandoned paper mill
pictures were inside this castiron machine. Wood was loaded in the pockets as
seen on the left, the door was closed and the lever pulled to actuate the
hydraulic cylinder which forced the wood against the grind stone. Water was
sprayed against the stone to keep the wood from burning. Wood and water mixed,
came out the bottom and was called slush, this went through a series of screens
to remove slivers, then to the beaters to make the fibers finer, then onto the
paper machine. If only wood fiber was used it was a solid wood sheet; an example
of that would be the old fashioned milk bottle caps. For other sheets it was
mixed with other fibers, chemicals, dies, and waste paper." |
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More
rollers.
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A broken
piece of roller. These are all over the northwest side of the island.
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Some
stonework just above the dam and partially in the water, looks like possibly
something slid up and down in water channel, this stonework looks like new
except for the moss covering it.
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A pile of
a large number of round metal pieces. Unknown what these are.
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Some sort
of pipe, riveted and fairly old.
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Yet
another roller.
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Foundations of a building.
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More
rollers. There seems to be something of a trail along the northwestern
side of the island, and some signs of humans. There are also a number of
trees felled by beavers, and some game trails.
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More
foundations.
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Small old
bridge over a now non-existent stream.
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Roller.
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A broken
roller.
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Looking
at the remains of the old bridge on the northern shore
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Remains
of the bridge foundations on the island, to the north shore.
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An old
insulator
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An old
transformer, sitting in the middle of the woods
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A closer
look
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Some more
ruins, looks like a shaft fit into this, possibly.
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Good-sized sinkhole or depression. I include this here because there
seemed to be some made-made trenches leading up near it.
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Melted
materials found in a few places on the island.
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One of my
favorite pictures from this series. A precariously free-standing section
of the old mill with the waters rushing by under it. The only things
holding this up are four thin sections at the bottom.
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