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As you walk up to the building, it is like seeing the bones of a dinosaur rising from the ooze.	Heavy vines have scaled the walls looking for sunlight.	Toward the rear of the ruins, the hill and the plants have started reclaiming the stone.

As you look from the front section toward the back, you can see one of the remaining beams that held the ceiling.	Rotten, with fungus and mold, the beam still rests on one wall. Another ceiling support piece is still attached to the beam	The walls toward the turning basin are crumbling even faster.

What isn't crumbling is being over-run by the plants that spring up even on the platforms that held heavy machinery.	A few of the wooden lintels are still in place; where they still exist, the stone still seems relatively safe.	One of the major problems is that the site has been abandoned so long that trees have come up from seed, lived, died, and fallen. When they fall across the walls of the Mill, the walls crumble.
	It is sad to see such a structure deteriorate so rapidly. I have been visiting this site for the past couple of years and in just that brief slice of time, I have noticed major deterioration .
Even the course down the middle of the Mill where water ran to provide power is now clogged with plants and fallen stone.		Some of the openings have lost their wooden supports and the stones seem to be held up by habit more than mortar.

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