Cain's Pond Dam (dam tour #9) Traditional Cache

Parking is off Remington Street in Suffield at the Stony Brooke Park. There is another overgrown parking area off route 75 but there is no way across brook and nearby railroad bridge {note for Zingerhead} is on wrong side of another brook that meets dam brook.

This was the second worst tick area I have been in. 6 small black ticks and 7 larger red and black ticks between the both of us.

Dam area is the site of Middle Iron Works dated to 1712. Here bog ore was smelted in a charcoal furnace and wrought into iron blooms by a great waterpowered hammer. The mill across the brook,[ private property and posted ], was used to grind corn until the machinery was damaged by the flood of 1955, which also washed away most traces of the iron works. Boy Scout troop # 260 worked on some primitive campsites near dam at some point,I found area but it is just a clearing. It now waits for when the town needs it?

We hiked the two major trails and found the one that goes straight back after passing thru gate, and follows brook to be the best.