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The Work of Our Hands: A History of Mount Pleasant, 1799~1899, p. 83

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"No Situation Could Make Me More Happy" ~ Reconstruction: 1814 - 1829 83 Haight Woollen Mill on Mount Pleasant Creek in 1911 before being demolished to make way for the Provincial Fish Hatchery building presently on the site. Photo from a series of postcards produced by Edwin J. Devlin. An unknown correspondent sent the postcard as a Christmas card, stating "this is a splendid picture of the old mill, keep it, there are no more." The mill site property was first owned by several leading settlers-cum-land speculators and promoters, including James Racey, Andrew Nelles, and Absalom Shade. One reference dates the mill to c1820, but M. Smyth dates it to 1842 when Elijah Haight built it as a carding and fulling mill. By 1870 it had become Potters Gristmill. No pictures of the Perrin Mill at Mud Hollow have survived, but it was said to be similar to the Haight Mill. Haight Mill and flume. The mill pond was above and to the west of the mill on the ridge. The natural features of the mill site were extensively reconfigured when the fish hatchery ponds were created and the "upper" pond drained.

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