Across the stream stood first a grain mill and later a lumber mill, powered by the dammed stream that turned a wheel to grind grain or saw logs, while the stream also served as a conduit for logs floated down to the mill. A photograph shows the unpaved road and the bridge's cribwork construction, with granite likely coming from nearby quarries in Frankfort. On November 2, 1912, Sally E. Dow recalled that as a young child she watched True Green, the lamp-lighter, climb his ladder to the light pictured there, probably in the late nineties when she was about chin-high with the sill of the window facing the post. Another photograph shows the ice house, circa 1915, where before electricity ice was cut from the pond behind the dam and stored for summer use.