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the barber dynamo
Sep. 10th, 2017 09:47 amYesterday we went hiking along a spur of the Bruce Trail in Ontario that takes you alongside the Credit River to the ruins of the Barber Dynamo, the first electrical generation plant in North America.
It's an up-and-down hike on a trail that doesn't see a lot of use, but is maintained, after a fashion - there are bridges across the deeper gullies. The ruins aren't fenced off or anything, unlike the ruins of the paper mill this plant was used to power back in 1900. There's a lot of murky water in the bottom of what used to be the penstock. Be careful!
It's an up-and-down hike on a trail that doesn't see a lot of use, but is maintained, after a fashion - there are bridges across the deeper gullies. The ruins aren't fenced off or anything, unlike the ruins of the paper mill this plant was used to power back in 1900. There's a lot of murky water in the bottom of what used to be the penstock. Be careful!
