This large stonewark feature was built in 1873 to support a immense 50 foot (valuable sources say 90 foot) water wheel), part of a large scale rebuilding of the facility here at Long Pond and a plan to call two remodeled anthracite furnaces called a rolling mill and new hydropower system which would have include damming the river upstream at an elevation that come out at the top of this hill to turn the giant over shot wheel operating here.
This large stonework feature was built in 1873 to support an immense 50 foot (some sources say 90 foot) waterwheel, part of a large scale rebuilding of the facility here at Long Pond. The plan called for two remodeled anthracite furnaces, a rolling mill and an entirely new hydropower system which would have included damming the river upstream at an elevation that comes out at the top of this hill to turn the giant over shot wheel operating here.