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Repurposed Stillwater Mill – Harrisville, RI
[wzslider autoplay=”true” interval=”6000″ height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]In circa 1918 the privately owned Stillwater Woorsted Mill was built in Harrisivlle RI. The Clearview River runs through Harrisville and was home to a number of manufacturing concerns through the 1900’s. Many of which were mill types dedicated to manufacturing textiles. The Stillwater Mill was the largest of the mills in town and at…
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Yantic Falls (Indian Leap) – Norwich, CT
[wzslider autoplay=”true” interval=”6000″ height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]First let me apologize for the very poor quality of these photographs. I happened upon this very cool site and only had my cell phone with me. Because light was streaming in through the tree tops it just couldn’t handle the high dynamic range so I did the best I could in post processing. I…
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Repurposed Mill at Indian Leap – Norwhich CT
[wzslider autoplay=”true” interval=”6000″ height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]The attached photo’s represent the once abandoned and recently repurposed mills of the Indian Leap neighborhood of Norwich, CT. The best that I can determine is that these mills belonged to the Falls Mill Company circa 1860. Power was harnessed by the Yantic Falls less than 1/4 mile upstream. Unfortunately I was not able to acquire…
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Kartway Dairy Bar – Gales Ferry, CT
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Fall Scenic – Roadside Harrisville, RI
While working as a salesman I was travelling on Rt. 102 in Harrisville RI when I spotted this nice fall scenic out my window. I pulled the car over, jumped out and snapped this photo with my Fujifilm F100fd, 12 mp, pocket camera.
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Abandoned Factory Dayville CT
[wzslider autoplay=”true” interval=”6000″ height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]This is what remains of an abandoned factory in Dayville, CT. I cannot determine for sure what factory this was. This is probably from the mid 1800’s. I would guess it was a woolen or fabric mill. Photo’s taken with a Samsun Galaxy Note 2, 8 mp, camera phone.
