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Thank you again. I'd like to see an illustration of such a mill.

Eeeeenteresting.

Thank you, Ted. Do you know of any examples offhand of pine barrens saw mills which were situated as such?

Turtle and I did some more extensive exploring at the mill site, and I walked away a bit more confident about my understanding of the site. I will recant my previous assertion that there were two mills here. I mistook for a raceway what I now think was simply an overflow channel, as I could find...

Thank you, Jerseyman. I look forward to it!

Thanks, LTH

That's a good consideration, jokerman.

No, but I do dig that song. My little bro just introduced me to his music.

When's your birthday?

Wagon? What wagon would that be?

See that, Bob? You can tell much about a person by the beer (or rather, swill) they drink. :D

I think one raceway would have been sufficient to drain the bog. Is there any evidence of a gate where the dam/road crosses either of the two races? Now I'm itching to get back there.

It would seem that sometimes more outflow channels were needed for cranberryin'. Collins Mill in Galloway is an example of a millpond converted to a cranberry bog where a new channel was dug out for the cranberry operation.

Let me know when you want to take a hike back to that causeway you found on the Sleeper.

Oops, I just realized I mistyped. I meant to say, perhaps the sawmill never utilized the main channel. It could be the case that the two northern channels were the tailraces of both the forge and sawmill. However, looking at the 1931 aerials, it seems clear that there was a mill that utilized...

Jeff, you up for a hike today?

Ben, perhaps this third channel was later dug out for the cranberry bog? Or perhaps the forge never utilized the main channel?

If you lose your life by getting hit by a falling tree limb, then surely this is God's will. Save the trees.

no matter, never mind.