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General Monon Discussions and Questions => Question and Answers (Q&A) => Topic started by: J.Butcher on November 11, 2012, 08:45:04 pm
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Does anyone know the name of the old mill on West Tapp Road? Looks like someone is working to make a museum or memorial out of it. Was there this weekend for a gymnastics meet and took my little boy down to look at it. It was obviously once served by rail though they are long gone......
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If it's the one I'm thinking of, it was one of the Woolery Mills. At one time there were four Monon gondolas that had been abandoned at this mill because the rail had been removed across Tapp Road and they were land-locked. We tried to buy these gondolas for the Society, but they wanted scrap metal price for them, which, at that time, was very high. Strangely enough, they were scrapped.
Getting old and memory is not always as sharp, but the day we were there we met the owner sitting in the mill, playing checkers around an old iron stove in the dead of winter and it was cold! He reminisced with us about the Monon for an hour.
Somewhere, I have photos.
George L.
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Here's a picture I believe was taken at Woolery Mill, one of Joe Bennett's that was published in Trains Magazine years ago. This was scanned from some magazine, maybe Trains, so it's not real good quality. / Ron