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From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: Tunnel Mill,East Fork , s Williamsburg twnsp
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 07:48:02 -0500


At dawn,as my dog was near a Tunnel Mill millstone in my yard,
it struck me to wrife of it's wood,and frame still exsisting,in a
different
form, just north of Williamsburg and new Rt 32. The 1st old barn,on the
east side of
Rt 133,north of new Rt 32, was built by James Allen Ashton, from the
lumber
he got from tearing down Tunnel Mill. Indeed,the mills macheniry
if,metal, have sunk
in the ground just north of the barn. 1910 era. He had bought the farm
just south of the
1826 era farm of William Johnson Ashton, and built a house, and this
barn. I've seen
it in the past month. Most of his other buildings are gone,but the barn
stands.
My Dad loved to fish the creek at Tunnel Mill-now very upper Lake
Harsha,East Fork
State Park. The creek made a 3 mile loop around the hill where the
mill's tunnel
carried water. He could park his car,and fish down the creek 3 miles,and
end up back at his
car. Expect even more typing errors from me,due to a kitten playing on
this desk. And
sleeping with me as my 'Teddy Bear" at night.
Tunnel mill is pictureed,I'm sure,in Bob Slades additions to the 1970's
reprint version of
Theiry and Mitchell's history. I used to swim there as my Dad fished,for
a dam had been
built for summer cabins.

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