Something worth celebrating! The millpond restoration is complete. There is brown water flowing over the dam again. We've been waiting for this since hurricane Floyd undermined the dam and left the millpond dry. Alot of folks were thinking we'd never see it back again. Some good and relentless people kept working behind the scenes and eventually it paid off. Thank you relentless people. The millpond sets my town apart as something special. The dam has been there powering the mill from the 1700's until the mill closed in the 1960's. The mill had a turbine that provided electricity to the town of Trenton in the 1930's. Someone told me that the electric lights went out at 9:00 pm nightly. With the restored dam we can expect the pond to be with us for centuries. That is comforting. Come and see it for yourself. The pond is home to beavers, otters, ducks, geese, cormorants, herons, snapping turtles, painted turtles, sliders, parula warblers, and alligators. Yes, we have alligators here. An alligator 10 feet long was run over on the road outside of Trenton not too long ago.
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