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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Wow 1876!! Thanks for 'unearthing' this photograph Flyingwedge.
So how does a woolen mill work? Why did it need that high 'trestle' leading to the roof of the building-
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That might be a flume carrying water to the big tank. The map below appears to show the flume,
along with what I guess is Woolen Mill Creek in the little ravine immediately south of the mill.
1875 Map of Canal and Reservoir Company Land @ Huntington Digital Library --
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/single...d/12985/rec/11
Chapulín is Spanish for
Grasshopper.