It is not too often that I get to see a Dayharsh original, but here is one of Wilt’s Mill. It has the raised lettering in the lower right corner that shows it was made by Mr. Dayharsh all those years ago.

Standing on the Green Street bridge, we are looking upstream along the Owasco Outlet (south) toward the mill, mill dam and Erie Canal Aqueduct. The dam had a very low head, only a two or three feet. We can see that boards were placed on top to help increase the depth of the pool above.

By the end of 1917, the aqueduct would see its last boat and the canal would be closed. The mill was torn down in the fall of 2012.