More Adventures near Lower Mill

This Saturday I hiked the bottom portion of the canal from Mount Misery Brook to Bisphams Mill Creek.

On the George Cook Topo Map of 1887 you can plainly see the canal, and the darkened area where it crossed Mount Misery Brook.

The lake down by Lower Mill does not exist anymore. When Henry Beck visited in the late 1920’s he found the canal emptying out into the lake right in front of a dam. Looking at the NJDEP i-MapNJ aerial photography of 1931, you can see the lake is gone. Today Bisphams Mill Creek flows through normally, and the only thing that betrays the existence of that lake is a cedar swamp and a deep depression.

I won’t re-write what I wrote on my site, so if you’re curious to read about the days adventure, you should mash your mouse button on this link. Everyone that is, except for Jae. He’s not allowed.