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The Creek That
Built the Town

45 min 1.2 mi loop 6 stops

PH Written with your neighbors Sourced, crafted & narrated by the community

“Follow the water downhill and you walk the whole story of the town — the mill, the bridge, the flood line still painted on the brick.”

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The Lower Mill Race

Where the diverted creek first turned a wheel — and why the whole town grew up around this bend.

3 segments
Stop 2

Tannery Bridge
Stop 3

The Granite Quarry Steps
Stop 4

The Flood Line

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The water that ran the wheel

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The Lower Mill Race

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The Lower Mill Race

“Stand on the footbridge and listen — this is the channel the first settlers dug by hand in 1791.”

The wheel pit, c. 1962

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Tannery Bridge

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Head north on Race Street 250 ft
Turn right onto Tannery Bridge Road 400 ft
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The Creek That Built the Town

Washington Ridge · Community draft · sample project

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1The Lower Mill Race 2Tannery Bridge 3Quarry Steps Add a stop

1Stop transcript · Draft

The Lower Mill Race

Race Street footbridge · Washington Ridge

Stand on the footbridge and look down. The narrow channel cut into the rock isn’t the creek — it’s the mill race the first settlers dug by hand in 1791 to pull water off the bend and run it past a wheel.

For a hundred years the sound of that wheel set the rhythm of the day. Families lived close enough to hear it stop — and when it stopped, everyone knew something was wrong upstream.

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The wheel pit before restoration, c. 1962

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From your neighbors Live

Memories, photos, and voice notes from the community. Curate them into stops on the left.

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Eleanor

Neighbor · shared a memory

8 min ago

My grandfather crossed the bridge to the tannery before dawn every day. He said you could smell the work before you could see the water.

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Raymond

Neighbor · added a photo

22 min ago

Found this in my mother’s album — Main Street the year the trolley stopped running.

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Old Main Street Add to stop

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