Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), March 5, 1975, R4

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Wed March Early mills still dot Some made of huge blocks of stout Hit is of limber hewed sawn on the site but all wen by power in the d lys of tins I f l Hit mills were for win I Hartley Coins into hamlets villages and towns of Ontario of the long disappeared when modi s of used Today blink i power red power i and many funis tin III it them to put in I spilling into RAVAGED BY FIRES the stone grist mill at Eden Mills is being used but for a new purpose cutting lumber for skids by water power S OLD STONE mill feed using water for power from the River but its days as a food source are numbered It has been sold and will soon be converted to other uses S FLOUR MILL at Acton is still a going growing concern No longer tapping the waters of Fairy Lake grinds bread flour from wheat that has unusually fine qualities a product of grain from fields in North and South Wellington THIS 01 MH which ground grain now sits mutely in front of a small restaurant of the same name beside the ramoia River in What stories it could tell of early days in the district 111 MB LI mesne and but most gone an CHELTENHAM S OLD frame mill is one of the few wooden buildings still standing along the Credit River Most have been either consumed by or torn down S FLOUR MILL at along a rocky gorge is no longer used but a landmark for fishermen who seek big brown trout in season The old mil race still exists but its eloquent silence speaks of another age A SMALL VILLAGE from is this old mill Dakota the Cedar Springs Community rebort was devastated one day in when the powder mill which employe blew up It happened at noon when were on duty and five of them community of rustic homes covers that early Halton disaster

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