North Fork Watershed Photo Tour Map Topaz Mill


  Topaz Mill and Spring

Topaz Spring

Topaz Spring, with about 11,000,000 gallons per day, is one of many large springs that feed the North Fork.

Topaz Mill

Topaz Mill is an historic old mill on the North Fork. It was first established in 1840. The present mill was built in 1896 and has been restored. Located several miles south of Highway 76, Topaz Mill was once the center of a thriving community including a general store, blacksmith shop, cannery, barber shop and post office.

The three-story building housed a fully automated mill which produced flour as well as meal. The mill's top capacity was about 40 barrels of flour a day, each weighing 96 pounds.

Milling operations gradually subsided during the 1930s. The general store remained open until 1945. At present the mill has been restored by a private owner and is in working condition.



Topaz Mill Pond

 


This raceway carried water from the millpond to the mill.
North Fork at Topaz

Topaz Spring Branch joins the North Fork about 1000 feet down from here. This is about six and a half miles downstream from the Highway 76 bridge.
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Photos by Peter Callaway


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