{"id":65,"date":"2015-02-25T03:05:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T03:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/?p=65"},"modified":"2015-02-25T03:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T03:18:55","slug":"trip-planning-visiting-water-powered-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/2015\/02\/25\/trip-planning-visiting-water-powered-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip planning &#8211; visiting water powered mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TripTik.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TripTik-300x147.png\" alt=\"general trip plan for drive across the country 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TripTik-300x147.png 300w, http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TripTik-1024x501.png 1024w, http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TripTik.png 1897w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">general trip plan for drive across the country 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My property in Carlisle is the site of a historical colonial era water powered mill. \u00a0The town records indicate that the there was a mill on the site on or around 1660 &#8211; which is only 30 years after the founding of Boston. \u00a0I will need check this but I believe the mill burned down around 1904 &#8211; so almost 250 years of milling!<\/p>\n<p>If you check on the web, there are still a few operating water powered mills in the USA. \u00a0I am going to try and visit a few as I drive across the country from San Francisco to Carlisle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First up: \u00a0Butte Creek Mill (<a href=\"http:\/\/buttecreekmill.com\/\">http:\/\/buttecreekmill.com\/<\/a> ) just north of Ashland OR on Highway 5 (\u00a0402 N. Royal Ave., Eagle Point, Oregon ). \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/buttecreekmill.com\/contact-us\/directions\/\">http:\/\/buttecreekmill.com\/contact-us\/directions\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Second up: \u00a0Thomson Mills State Heritage site in OR \u00a0 \u00a0on Highway 5 (<span class=\"brown\">Park:<\/span> 541-491-3611 ) \u00a0<a href=\"Thomson%20Mills State Heritage site in OR \u00a0 \u00a0on Highway 5  http:\/\/www.oregonstateparks.org\/index.cfm?do=parkPage.dsp_parkPage&amp;parkId=186\">http:\/\/www.oregonstateparks.org\/index.cfm?do=parkPage.dsp_parkPage&amp;parkId=186<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Third up: \u00a0 Willamette Heritage Center \u00a0near Salem,\u00a0OR\u00a0on Highway 5 (1313 Mill Street SE Salem, OR 97301 \u00a0\u00a0Ph 503- 585 -7012)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willametteheritage.org\/plan_a_visit.html\">http:\/\/www.willametteheritage.org\/plan_a_visit.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">general trip plan for drive across the country 2015<\/p>\n<p>My property in Carlisle is the site of a historical colonial era water powered mill. The town records indicate that the there was a mill on the site on or around 1660 &#8211; which is only 30 years after the founding of Boston. I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}