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Located about 23 miles upstream from Georgetown is the Seneca Stone Cutting Mill. It is about 0.2 mile upstream from the Seneca Aqueduct/Riley's Lock. I first saw the red sandstone through the leafless Fall (2003) trees as I was exploring the area around the Seneca Creek Aqueduct. I was drawn by the large size and the location of the ruins; obviously an industrial facility of some sort on the bank of a large basin on the C&O Canal. It had to be important because to make a basin that big took a lot of mules and men. Some friends told me that the ruins were the Seneca Stone Cutting Mill; and that some of the stone from that site went toward building the Smithsonian in Washington. That was all I needed to perk my interest and lead me onto some interesting paths of discovery. |
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Seneca Stone Cutting Mill |
