12 × 16” Original Watercolor Painting
Reed Spring appears from the side of a hill and forms a beautiful blue pond, and then meanders, flows and grows toward the Black River. The spring lies behind the mill.
It’s easy to see why Nathaniel Scott build the first mill onsite here in 1881, grinding corn and flour. He then added a saw mill to provide lumber so that settlers could build homes and businesses in the town around the mill. By 1915, history records that someone named Dr. Shy decided to use the power from the water at this source to generate electricity. That meant the overshot wheel had to go, and he had a turbine installed to produce more power.
12 × 16” Original Watercolor Painting
Reed Spring appears from the side of a hill and forms a beautiful blue pond, and then meanders, flows and grows toward the Black River. The spring lies behind the mill.
It’s easy to see why Nathaniel Scott build the first mill onsite here in 1881, grinding corn and flour. He then added a saw mill to provide lumber so that settlers could build homes and businesses in the town around the mill. By 1915, history records that someone named Dr. Shy decided to use the power from the water at this source to generate electricity. That meant the overshot wheel had to go, and he had a turbine installed to produce more power.
