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Currently the group has a resource room at the local community hall (Stonehouse Lifestyles, 2 Udston Mill Road, Stonehouse ML9 3JL). Additional information can be found on their own website. Stonehouse Scouts, Cubs and Beavers. Scouting in Stonehouse had closed in the early-1990s but was restarted in 2014 by a team of local volunteers.
Each incoming tide filled a mill-pond behind the dam, and then, as the tide ebbed, the water was released through a millrace to turn the mill wheel. Nearby the mill-pond, on the neck itself, Lispenard built his home, a stone house of one-and-a-half stories, with the front eaves extending to form the roof of a wide porch. [2]
A sawmill was established by the creek, operated by Joe Sherwood, who died in an accident at the mill in 1873. Following his death, the creek was named Sherwood Creek in his honor. In the 1950s, Mill Pond was likely formed by the local Indigenous tribe, presumably for fishing purposes.
The Lenawee County Drain Commissioner's Office is planning repairs to the Red Mill Pond dam and has proposed including a portage project in the plan. Tecumseh City Council asked to fund kayak ...
The Millbay and Stonehouse Area Action Plan 2006-2021 was adopted by Plymouth City Council in 2007. [9] In the same year the first Millbay Masterplan received planning consent [10] and this was updated in 2015. [11] Millbay's first new development, Cargo, was completed in 2010.
The 1890s mill structure has long since been converted into dining and retail space in the 1980s, where visitors once had pristine views of a pond that was occasionally frequented by a ski club.
A "full deck" of logs awaiting the mill. A log pond is a small natural lake or reservoir used for storage of wooden logs in readiness for milling at a sawmill.Although some mill ponds served this purpose for water-powered sawmills, steam-powered sawmills used log ponds for transportation of logs near the mill; and did not require the elevation drop of watermill reservoirs.
The park features a prominent "pond" more than one mile long that (when full) ranges from 2–3 feet (0.61–0.91 m) deep near the edges, 5–7 feet (1.5–2.1 m) deep further out, 8–10 feet (2.4–3.0 m) in the middle of the "red trail" (in the flow of the original creek), and 12–14 feet (3.7–4.3 m) just in front of the mill house.