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Morningstar Mill is a 2.98-acre (1.21 ha) heritage site located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The site includes the Morningstar Mill, a sawmill, the home of the Morningstar family, a barn used for blacksmith demonstrations, and the Decew Falls gorge along the Niagara Escarpment. [1]
It is about 10.5 km (6.5 mi) in length. It combines with Francis Creek and empties into the Twelve Mile Creek at Martindale Pond, very close to its outlet. [3] These two sub-watersheds therefore do not contribute to water flow on the great majority of the Twelve Mile Creek. Highway 406 curves over Twelve Mile Creek in St. Catharines.
English: This is a photo of the turbine shed (left) behind the grist mill at the Morningside Mill. The turbine is powered by water from the pond above DeCew Falls as it falls through a penstock to the turbine. Across from the mill and turbine shed is a reconstruction of the sawmill that once was part of the site.
St. Catharines is the most populous city in Canada's Niagara Region, the eighth largest urban area in the province of Ontario.As of 2017, St. Catharines has an area of 96.13 square kilometres (37.12 sq mi) and 140,370 residents.
The 1890s mill structure has long since been converted into dining and retail space in the 1980s, where visitors once had pristine views of a pond that was occasionally frequented by a ski club.
Lexington is also in the process of completing a paved one-mile walking trail around the pond, which the town said should be ready to open to the public once Old Mill Pond is full again. The trail ...
The channel or stream leading from the mill pond is the mill race, which together with weirs, dams, channels and the terrain establishing the mill pond, delivers water to the mill wheel to convert potential and/or kinetic energy of the water to mechanical energy by rotating the mill wheel. The production of mechanical power is the purpose of ...
The Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course is a rowing facility that is located in Port Dalhousie, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The facility was constructed in 1903 as a permanent venue for the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. The facility is located on the Martindale Pond. [1] In 1966, the facility was renovated.