By Amanda (age 10) and Valerie (age 9)
The original Cedar Creek Grist Mill was built in 1876. Originally it had a cedar log dam. Next to the dam was a fish ladder. In 1953 the fisheries blew out the dam.
The flume is six-hundred and fifty feet long. The first two-hundred and fifty feet is made of rock. The other four-hundred feet is made of steel and lumber. The flume also acts as a reserve of water. When the grist mill was restored they had to have enough water in the flume to run the mill.
Here's the creepy thing about it. Before the mill was restored there was a murder. The killer threw the body down the pinstock. The pinstock is this tube that the water falls down.
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