The three sites are two parks, Furnace Park and Bicentennial Park, and a millpond associated with Holley Manufacturing Company.
42.
Ownership of the site, including the millpond, passed to the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection in 1982 or 1983.
43.
By 1899 the millpond had been drained and only a hydraulic ram is shown at the site of the old mill.
44.
Overshot wheels demand exact engineering and significant head, which usually means significant investment in constructing a dam, millpond and waterways.
45.
The investors increased the size of the millpond by raising the level of the dam, creating what is now Hiland Lake.
46.
Of the many millponds where ducks and geese once paddled, only broken-down mill races are still to be found.
47.
Nearly a hundred barrels of flour and salted food were thrown into the millpond, as were 550 pounds of musket balls.
48.
In the twilight, the nixie seized him, drawing him down, down into the cold millpond's unknowable depths.
49.
Weeping and calling for her husband, she neither saw nor heard anything as neither the millpond nor the watermill were milling.
50.
The source of water for the Leatherhead pumping station is still a series of ten artesian wells near the millpond at Fetcham.
