sentences:  Navigation on the Grand slowed around 1879 and many of the Navigation Company dams fell into disrepair in the years following.The first Caledonia Dam also provided enough run of mill to allow water-powered mills to be constructed along the banks of the Grand in Caledonia.Ranald McKinnon built a gristmill, saw mill, and woollen (textile) Mill on the North side of the river, and James Little built the Caledonia Mill on the south side.