Campus Mill Pond

There is a really neat stone mill on campus. The wheel is approaching 100 years in age and was orginally located somewhere elses. (picture above from HCC website). Excerpt from recent web article: The waterwheel at HCC has a long history in Haywood County. It was first purchased in 1908 from a company in Pennsylvania by David Crockett Campbell for Campbell Creek in Maggie Valley. The wheel was used to power a gristmill, sawmill, and electric generator, which powered the first electric icebox in Maggie Valley. The wheel spent 39 years on Campbell Creek.

In 1947, the waterwheel was sold to A.L. Freedlander and remained on his estate for 33 years. In 1979, the waterwheel was donated to HCC in memory of Freedlander. The Dayco Charitable Foundation gave HCC a $10,000 gift to move the waterwheel to HCC and refurbish it.

The waterwheel was erected beside the HCC Mill Pond in 1980. Students, faculty, and staff carefully reassembled the wheel bolt by bolt.

In 1983, Mr. and Mrs. W. Curtis Russ donated money to start the construction of the mill house and to hire a consultant to provide technical assistance. Shortly afterward, Irene Campbell McKaughan, David Crockett Campbell's daughter, and Doan Ogden, a landscape architect from Asheville that had drawn the original landscape plans that called for construction of the millpond, donated the original millstones to HCC. Ogden also donated all the gears and working parts of the waterwheel. McKaughan's gift required that a painting be completed of the waterwheel in its Campbell Creek location. This painting is now displayed in the HCC Library.

I just think the waterwheel is a fascinating combination of stone, metal, and wood.
Rustic attempt by dropping the color info.
Fun with photoshop's pencil filter.