North Fork Watershed Photo Tour Map Dawt Mill
  Dawt Mill




Dawt Mill is an historic old mill on the North Fork. Built in 1897, it has become a popular resort, with a small hotel, restaurant, canoe rental, swimming, and the old mill itself.




The only water control structure on the North Fork is Dawt Mill Dam. This is a relatively low structure, less than eight feet high. Dawt Mill Dam backs water up for about 1/4 mile. The builder thought making it from an angle would make it stronger. It has lasted over a century.

The raceway channels water to a turbine which turns a shaft to grind grain.




Visitors may view a mill grinding demonstration, using water to power this mill to grind corn.

 

  
 
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Photos by Peter Callaway


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