We went back down to one of our favorite places to cool off, on a hot summer day. We had been this last summer and I wrote about it here. The weather was very dry and the river was hardly what you could call "roaring". But when we were there last Sunday, January 1, 2012 this is what it looked like. Much better!
The view downstream.
We found some more of those mysterious ruins....After we got home that day we did some more online research and found out just what all this used to be. I had tried to find out before but couldn't seem to find anything. But thanks to a road sign with a clue, I was able to find a bit of info.
These two are from the last time we went.
What we found out was that this was once the Crawford Mills. Just up the road was a sign 'Old Crawford Mill Road'. By searching under this, we found out that it was once a flour and grist mill that for a time even supplied electricity to Livingston, TN. It was built around 1840. We could find very little information and no photographs of when it was in operation. Which is what Tim really wanted to see.....how it worked. We did find this one small link describing it's function. Crawford Farm
We did hope to find more....I know it's a long shot but if anyone would happen to know where we could get more information let us know. We're curious now.
Here's a picture of a few of the rocks in the area. Quite a few look like this. Fossils are so interesting.
In a different life, I would have liked to have been an archaeologist. I'd love to find out what all those "petrified remains" are.
Now this is my Wildlife photo for the week! I'll call it...."Snail Love". Makes me smile.
5 comments:
Wow - what a beautiful area. Why don't you just write to the current owners of the Crawford Farm property and ask them for information? Tell them why you're interested.
Love your waterfall and river shots!
thanks Linda!
That's not a bad idea Kim. I also thought I should check out county library they may know of a book that someone has written about the area.
Beth this looks so neat...what a fun way to start out the new year :)Someday when we are down there visiting you will have to take us there, would love that!
that would be great fun, Kathleen. It's a great place to go swimming. There is also a place down river with more of those ruins. I mentioned it as a link in this post. Good swimming hole there too.
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