Old Mill Hill Road Valley Creek Wall Falls
Downhill from our house, there used to be a copper mill. Specifically a smelter, that received impure copper from the Atlantic Mine. Very little of it remains. It was a first attempt by miners who were still figuring out how to do things, and didn’t work too well. So, after a few years, they built a better one about a mile further west, on Cole’s Creek. Since that was then the new mill, this obviously became the Old Mill.
The old mill was located partway up a hill, so that is the Old Mill Hill.
The road running past the old mill hill obviously needed a name, and so it was named “Old Mill Hill Road”
(not just “Mill Road”, because in addition to there being a “New Mill”, there was also already a “Mill Road” on the other side of town that was associated with a different copper mine altogether).
So anyway, Old Mill Hill Road runs up the hill, and it took the easiest path up, which was through a valley cutting across the hill. This is the “Old Mill Hill Road Valley”[1].
Of course, when water flows, it takes the easiest path just like the road does. And so there is a creek running alongside the road. This is the “Old Mill Hill Road Valley Creek”.
At the point where the creek gets close to the road, there have been chronic washout problems, and so a few years back the county did a massive rebuild of the road. This included a retaining wall to keep the road from being washed away by the creek. This is the “Old Mill Hill Road Valley Creek Wall”
And just a little bit down from the wall, there is a small seasonal tributary, which enters the creek as a nice little waterfall about two feet tall. This is the “Old Mill Hill Road Valley Creek Wall Falls”.
And if we want to go on, the falls are right at the beginning of a stretch of rapids where the creek is running fast over a layer of bedrock.
These are, obviously, the “Old Mill Hill Road Valley Creek Wall Falls Rapids”
I think I’d better stop there [2].
OK, that’s all. Just wanted to get that off my chest.
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[1] Granted, all the names after this point are not actually in common usage by anyone but me. But they are perfectly good names!
[2] If we were doing this in German, all those words would have been run together into just one really long word. For more along these lines, see the story of Rhubarb Barbara
After the rapids, is there a deeper section of water? Perhaps a Old Mill Hill Road Valley Creek Wall Falls Rapids Pool?