Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Hamburg Paper Mill


When we were looking for the Ginger Bread Castle we saw this giant smoke stack sticking out of the woods from a distance. I remember exactly saying "Bobby we should go! that probably has an interesting story." We set out through a new housing development and into the woods on the side. We were only a little into the woods and we had to find a way down the side of this steep cliff with loose rocks. As we got down we came upon the first part of a structure.




After walking along side the cliff we got down to notice down more graffiti.





This building structure was the old remembrances of the Hamburg Paper Mill. The Mill was from the late 19th century and offered many locals full time employment and farmers money during the winter giving them straw to keep the mill running. However the Mill had its problems having multiple fires and flooded from the dam and creek nearby.





To get across the river running through we tight roped walked across a beam that ran above it. About halfway through I stopped to snap that picture of the river running down underneath us, it was kind of scary looking down as it was about a twenty foot drop onto sharp rocks!


As we crossed the river we had to jump over some little gap in the foundation then we came across the smoke stack I original spotted and what we set out to find!





 Sorry there was not much historical facts about the old paper mill I could not seem to find them. This was a hard one, to be honest we had no idea what it was when we first found it!

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