Swimming in the Napanee River at Colebrook Dam

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Lennox and Addington

Swimming in the Napanee River at Colebrook Dam

The original iron water turbine of an old mill. These appeared after 1870 replacing water wheels where the water flowed under the wheel, not over. They were far more efficient. — The original iron wa…

A fine old stone house built for Charles Warner in 1842. He purchased the local saw mill from Peter Mills in 1842. Colebrook was called Peter's Mills until 1851. Fire wipped out most of the town on the west river bank in 1877. — A fine old stone hou…

Dam on the Napanee River in Colebrook. Watch out for lots of poison ivy along the shore. — Dam on the Napanee R…

The dam in Colebrook in January. It powered Peter's sawmill in 1842 in the top right of the picture. This is the site of another mill in total ruins. Few remain, they all had bad mortar between the stone. Did one contractor build most of the mills with bad mortar in all of them? Many were wooden framed and burned down. — The dam in Colebrook…

Colebrook Road County Road 6