This Old Mill: In Honor and Memory of Bruce Humphries

I often drove by an old building on the outskirts of Pine Plains and wondered about what it used to be.  As it was beside a small pond I naturally assumed it was some kind of abandoned water mill.   When I saw some activity going on around it (actually more underneath it) my curiousity got me to pull over.

I wondered about the rest of the building — was any of the mill equipment still intact? 

As is the way of things in a small town, it did not take much to wangle an inviation to take a tour of the interior.  An amazing amount of milling gear was still there and, if not in working order, enough to show how the mill was used.

I brought Bruce Humphries over to go through it with the owner so I could videotape the tour for the sake of some history.  He was the only person I knew who would be familiar enough with the milling equipment and the turbine.  This was the first time Bruce had been in the building!