Triphammer Falls in Ithaca, NY
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The Finger Lakes region has a lot to offer esp the wine country ...all the parks you have mentioned I have been too this year
Largobob wrote:
Although I now live in Florida, I was born/lived n... (show quote)
Nov 21, 2018 17:27:31 #
I will have to do some research on that old building ... there are a lot of those types of buildings in this area like that and are still in use esp in Rochester
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Nov 21, 2018 18:19:08 #
Found this online what that building actually is ....Triphammer Falls got their name from the Triphammer Forge which operated in the area in the 1820's. It's made up of two drops. At the bottom of the first drop is a power station on Beebe Dam, and at the bottom of the second drop is what appears to be a 12th century Florentine castle. The stone used matches the stone of the gorge, making the building look like some sort of weird, ancient fort, but it's actually a Hydraulic Lab built in 1898 so the College of Civil Engineering could study water purification and observe the flow of water from the adjacent falls. Unfortunately, a flood in the 1960's forced the lab to close, and it's been sitting abandoned ever since.
Nov 21, 2018 19:01:06 #
mikel56ny wrote:
Found this online what that building actually is .... (show quote)
Interesting. And thanks.
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