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There is No Escape
I found the mill
Apr 3
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There is No Escape
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Slag Site may be a smithy
At Sterling Ironworks, ten miles away, there’s iron production. That requires a lot of people and a small community of coordinated production. Up the…
Mar 12
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What in tarnation is this word
What in tarnation is this word
Mar 11
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What in tarnation is this word
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Rethinking the Onderdonk Dam
In blue, there’s a grist will that’s to the east of the millseat directly east of the bridge. So, the second structure over. That’s the site where we’ve…
Mar 5
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Distillery Dig 1
Went out to look for telegraph or signaling poles this morning, but it is still too snowy/icy on the bank in question. Still, we managed to make a few…
Mar 2
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The Water-Powered Distillery
We were going to investigate this building as a test trench under the assumption it was the distillery, but I still hadn’t looked enough at the picture…
Mar 1
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Telegraphy to the Rescue
If we can find the base of the middle pole, and the nearby crossing sign, they will help orient us vis-a-vis the building. I wonder if the crossing…
Mar 1
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Mill and Unknown Structure, ~1900 and 2022
This needs more work and was difficult because 1) the spot is far lower now, so I have to hold my phone as far as possible above my head when I take the…
Mar 1
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That time in the holler when the cops caught the arsonist kid down by the old creamery
A local who’s had a functioning memory of the New Milford area since 1960 or so reports that the whole New Milford area was known as Jockey Holler as…
Feb 21
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JHCEAA Research Schedule
Two of us met today at the mill and one was in his yard and came over to see what was going on. We were actually right around the structure on the left…
Feb 20
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Slag and Slagsibility
Back to the mystery mill in New Milford. Took a trip out in advance of the JHCEAA meeting tomorrow and confirmed the big slag layer a bit after the…
Feb 20
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Millsite at Old Stone House
One of the old Hathorne residences has evidence of an old millsite. There’s the placemat, which is just from the 1875 Orange County atlas, which…
Feb 19
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