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This large stonework feature was built
in 1873 to support an immense 50 foot (some sources say 90
foot) waterwheel, part of a large scale rebuilding of the
facility here at Long Pond. The plan called for two
remodeled anthracite
furnaces, a rolling mill and an entirely new hydropower
system which would have included damming the river upstream
at an elevation that comes out at the top of this hill to
turn the giant over shot wheel operating here.
Two events conspired to end this
project: