Scarritts Mill Pond

(An AI generated children's historical fiction) Long ago, in the year 1864, a little girl named Alice B. Mallory was born near West Hartford, Connecticut. Alice grew up in a very special place. Her home stood beside a gristmill, a busy old mill where grain was brought in and ground into flour and meal. The mill belonged to her father, David Mallory, and it was an important part of life in the neighborhood. The Mill by the Water Every day, Alice could hear the sounds of the mi

Deciding on a New Solution By 2025, the neighborhood association board had hit a wall with the pond and were concerned that we had only 3-5 years before it would turn into a swamp. Years had gone by since the 1982 dredging, and the group thought that their only solution was to dredge again. But the quotes in recent years had been $400,000 or more, clearly not an amount that could be met by the 60 houses that surround the pond and dam. One of the new association board members