Lanark County - Mississippi Mills #1 Traditional Cache
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Lanark County - Mississippi Mills #1
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Lanark County - Mississippi Mills, is part of a series of caches I have placed throughout the 5 Townships of Lanark County. I came across this idea in part at an event that I attended in 2011.
I hope you enjoy your tour around Lanark County and seeing all that beautiful countyside it has to offer.
History
It is practically impossible to name the most important cities of the world without instantly thinking of the rivers they are on.
Think of Mississippi Mills in Eastern Ontario's Lanark County: think of its location, on a hundred and seventy-five kilometer long watercourse, Canada's Mississippi, one of five tributaries of the fabled Upper Ottawa River.
On January 1, 1998, the Town of Mississippi Mills was created by merging the Town of Almonte with the townships of Ramsay and Pakenham, including the village of Pakenham. This new community covers approximately 523 sq km and encompasses a population of about 12,000 Once known throughout the Upper Ottawa Valley as the 'Woollen Town', Almonte was renowned for excellence in production of woollen and worsted cloth from mills built to take advantage of the sixty-two and a half foot falls in the river that gave it the reputation as a 'Little Niagara'. Other woollen enterprises, as well as grist and flour mills (essential for the needs of a pioneer settlement) flourished at other sites as well, at Appleton, Blakeney and at Pakenham in a distinct manufacturing river corridor known as the 'Mills Along the Mississippi'.
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