Bridgeton Mill

As the water washes out more dirt I see more and more of the bedrock and ……. stuff.  I am looking for a channel.  Hansel (Former owner of the mill (1938 – 41) blasted out a channel with dynamite  so he could get more horsepower.  I know where it should be but it was under…

Someone kicked a few boards off the covered bridge so they could grab the Christmas wreath.  It was 8 ft. tall.  Since we have restored the mill dam and mill pond the only way to get to the wreath was from the inside.  Fortunately the boards didn’t fall into the creek.  The county was able…

Larry and Pete stopped by to give rides to folks.  Well … they didn’t give them away!  Covered Bridge Christmas was very good this year (last weekend of Nov and the first weekend of Dec.) … lots of folks came to stock up on Bridgeton Mill’s fresh stone ground products.  They know we will be…

This is a photo taken by the Indianapolis News just after we bought the place.  The only time there was water on the south side of the creek was during a flood.  This brought in lots of dirt, mud, sand …etc.  The south side silted in and there was grass, weeds, bushes and trees growing…

The dam and mill pond are functional ……  I could repair the waterpower.  But, Karen says I have to pay for all the work we’ve done first.  This winter I plan to do lots of research into hydroelectric.

This is a photo from the mill window.  The finished dam, waterfall and mill pond are wonderful.  I get to look at this everyday.  When I’m mixing and bagging product I can’t quite here the customers …. the waterfall is so loud.  I tell the folks I’m gona turn down the volume and I shut…

Since everyone was miserable and I had gotten the poisoning again … I hired a crane to finish the job.  And what a crane it was.  One hundred and fifteen feet tall. I called Misco and they said they would like to help.  He made me a great deal.  It was still a lot of…

A rock got into the hose  and plugged the end.  Jimmy was knocked over backwards into the water.  After that I tried to stay behind him.  Notice my new higher boots.  They weren’t high enough cause I got cement poisoning again.  Jimmy had cement poisoning on his shoulder … but he kept at it.  Also…

It felt like I had sand in my boots.  Charlie and Dave kept talking about sand in their boots.  When the day was over and we took off our boots …. there was some skin missing.  Jimmy told us it was cement poisoning.  He told us to use white vinegar on it.  Karen had some…

Here we are trying to fill one of the holes with concrete.  I’m holding a piece of plywood so it will stay in the hole until it dries.  The idea was to blow the concrete to the back of the hole and force the water out.  The shotcrete has more cement in it and less…