Weir Dam & Pond

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This was the water supply for the railroad. We knew it as first dam when I was a kid growing up in the area and trying to sneak in to fish in it. Must have been a thousand railroad police in Bristol then as every time we turned around there stood one. The pump house in the photo was later used by a ready mix concrete business which occupies to this day the area where the sanding facilities were located. It is my understanding that it was called first dam because there was another dam further up stream from Bristol that served a grist mill that was known locally as second dam. The creek is named Beaver Creek.

Bob McCracken

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On Sep 14, 2013, at 8:39 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:


> Not able to help with that.  If that’s where the steam locomotive water came from, nobody ever said.

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> EdKing

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> In Bristol, just below the tracks (29W shows on the siding) and the old roundhouse, is this weir dam and storage pond. Perhaps Ed King would like to elaborate on its function and what looks like a pump house on the far side of the creek?

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> Mike Pierry, Jr.

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