The final remaining enterprise from the near-ghost city of Stockdale, the Stockdale Mill stands as a testomony to the area's wealthy farming and industrial heritage. Its intricate wood-and-stone mechanisms have assisted generations of farmers in turning crops into invaluable merchandise utilizing the latent energy of the winding Eel River. Comparatively unchanged from its heyday, even the mill's unique builders and first clients would acknowledge it at present.
Although items have been changed once they rot or degrade, nearly all of elements within the mill are nonetheless unique, both from its years of operation or its first development in 1857. Ropes and pulleys nicely over a century previous cling from the identical beams that comprised the unique skeleton of the power, and gears animated by the 200-foot dam nonetheless activate creaking axles simply as previous.
Guests who throw themselves again in time contained in the mill can tour all three flooring and see firsthand the way it works—works, not labored, because the mill nonetheless capabilities. Those self same guests may even buy whole-wheat flour or corn meal produced on the dam after they've wandered its halls.
The one really new component of your complete facility is the fish ladder added to the dam in 2017 via a collaboration with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Division and Manchester College Environmental Sciences Program. The primary of its variety put in within the U.S., this fish ladder might be navigated by fish as small as a few inches, serving to to offset the obstacle the dam places on Eel River ecology.
