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    Fries Mill

    Also the tree is leaning toward the open water to the left.as it leans for the sun it tightens its cable till it snaps or comes out by the roots
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    Fries Mill

    I have read in a book some where that trees do not actually grow "up" but expand at their twig tips and expand in girth adding rings but say you make a chest level blaze today and come back in twenty years.The blaze will still be chest level but barely discernible as a scar that will be...
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    Fries Mill

    Bob that area is full of Wisteria,This appears to be a wisteria vine to me.I can think of no steel cables left in that area.I may be wrong but I do believe it's a vine.Would be in character with that area
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    Fries Mill

    Black Rat snake possibly getting ready to shed.has to be the most common snake around,the woods are full of em.Great climbers and eaters.My Great Grand dad would trow em in the corn crib to keep the rats out of the corn.Make good pets too,very seldom bite unlike a racer,quite strong.van tell...
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    Fries Mill

    Bridge was solid as a rock wasn't it? Was last time I crossed it and that wasn't long ago
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    Fries Mill

    the third pic is the beach is on the left where i learned to swim.beach is gone and water much shallower now
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    Friday afternoon at Parvin State Park

    A small hint,there are points in that crik.I won't say where but their there.
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    Fries Mill

    Thats the old diving board foundation.Dive there now you'll break your neck but it was deep back then.ziI don't know if they had dug it out or natural events made the hole and then filled it in. Did the bridge hold up for you?
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    Fries Mill

    PS if you cross the bridge immediately head south to the right or you will pass garrisons house.He thinks that all is his kingdom but once across the bridge he only owns the land on the left out to the black top but if you let him BS you he will have you thinking he owns it all,best just to...
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    Fries Mill

    The old saw mill sat immediately to your right.you can look along the shore and see the old foundation block with the bolts in it the diving board used to be attached to.The crik was much deeper then.Camp Hollybrook days back in the 70's
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    Fries Mill

    That bridge is fine. i walked across it a few months ago and I dont even want to tell you how much I weigh.enough to be the bridge tester. The barricade is to stop dirt bikes not hikers
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    Tory Pine Tree Robbers

    I hear the Wooleys owned some swamp land I have this album since the 80's,never thought I"d marry a woman related to the swamp owners.
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    Fries Mill

    The Stream you were looking at at the party spot was Manumuskin River,same creek that runs under the bridge only downstream. Big Neal branch meets the Manumuskin at the Bridge in what used to be the backed up pond.There is often no water in it. and 66C10 us correct bennetts Mill was a Cranberry...
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    Fries Mill

    Yes this is the exact spot where his well photo was taken.
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    Fries Mill

    Looks like the bridge is down for the count.I doubt they will ever replace it.
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    Fries Mill

    Were these pictures taken of this Bennetts Mill? https://boydsmaps.com/#15.00/39.423706/-74.908410/pines1949/0.00/0.00 I believe that pic you took of that what I always thought was an old well is south of Bennetts here https://boydsmaps.com/#15.00/39.414158/-74.908667/pines2023/0.00/0.00...
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    Fries Mill

    So Manumuskin means "To Drink Swamp water at this place"? I LIKE IT! Fits me perfectly for I have been known to drink swamp water on purpose and accidently.
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    Fries Mill

    The foundation you took pics of next to the raceway is the remains of the Mill
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    Fries Mill

    I"m in that group.Never thought of that.Thanks!
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