#1645 "Carding Mills Bridge"

#1645 "Carding Mills Bridge"
16x20 oils on canvas from 2015

The Carding Mill was on the southern edge of Lyndhurst on the north side of the current bridge. A second dam at this location is gone and at one time it really changed the appearance of the land. Jonas Street still follows the same curve as it heads northward but the trees that currently occupy the site, have all grown up since the time of the carding mill. 

The storehouse, carding mill and carding mill bridge at the lower millpond
 in Lyndhurst, as photographed by John Buick Harvey in May 1907.

What struck visitors about Lyndhurst in the mid-1800s was not that it was a growing village, for it was not, but rather that it offered a promising site for a village. 

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Warmest regards and keep your paddle in the water,

Phil Chadwick