Christie Mills: Christie Mill: Cramahe Archives - Our Past, Our... http://vitacollections.ca/cramahelibrary/267/Exhibit Christie Mill Main Menu >> Next Page Pages Christie Mills The Flour and Grist Mill Joseph Keeler Christie Mills As you gaze at the photographs of these old limestone ruins of the Christie Mill set amid the overgrown grass and foliage, pause for just a moment and imagine listening to the sound of the wind in the trees on a summer day. The aura of time past envelops you. Then, in another moment, think how different that scene would have been two centuries earlier. A site not yet in ruins but rather, a place alive with the sounds of a nineteenth-century white pioneer settlement: people, oxen, wagons, and sluicing water powering the machinery that would grind grain into meal for baking bread. Once a historic Cramahe landmark, Christie Mill, said to be named after the miller who operated it, is now but a place held in memory of the earliest years of Colborne and Lakeport, Ontario. Even the evocative stone ruins are gone, demolished over safety concerns in 2003 after a bid to preserve them was defeated. So it is only through sketches, photographs and words that the story of the mill's existence as a symbol of pioneer settlement will be kept alive. Main Menu >> Next Page Heritage Lost - The Story of Christie Mill Powered by / Alimenté par 1 of 1 2014-05-08, 12:25 PM