Jenney Mill
by Carol Lynn Coronios
Title
Jenney Mill
Artist
Carol Lynn Coronios
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
If only today's students could learn history from someone like Leo Martin, owner/docent/tour guide and local historian of Plymouth, MA!
Travel back in time on the 'Business NOT as Usual' tour, as Leo relates struggles, survival, and faith that set the cornerstones of our country. After a couple very hard years of trying to live by the stipulations of British colonization, it was apparent that it was impossible for families to survive as individual entities. Can you imagine trying to grow enough crops to feed your family in addition to the percentage required to be paid to the 'landlord', grind the grain needed for bread, raise and tend a cow, a pig, and a few chickens, raise your children, etc., etc., etc.? Oh - and despite the happy Thanksgiving story, not all Native Americans were all THAT pleased with the newcomers.
In 1636, Pilgrim John Jenney proposed a plan to his neighbors. He would build a mill and grind all their grains in exchange for a portion of that grain. He would not grow his own, but trade his labor for a portion of theirs. This was the beginning of free trade, industry, and capitalism in our country.
The brook that provided water to the mill still plays an active part in Plymouth's life today. Each spring, thousands of river herring delight crowds as they swim upstream to spawn (similar to the salmon in the northwest).
I took various photographs of this mill, with its creek and waterwheel. The fast shutter speed on this one allows you to see individual droplets of water, not only as it comes over the falls, but on either side of the water wheel as well.
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December 6th, 2014
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