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Alanna Doughty of the Lake Environment Association, discusses clipping techniques for invasives along Stevens Brook Trail in Bridgton last apring. She will host a history walk along the brook on Oct. 21 in conjunction with the ongoing Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club cleanup project. (Submitted photo)
BRIDGTON – The Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club will host a history walk, 10 a.m. to noon, Thursday, Oct. 21, beginning in the Food City parking lot.
The walk, led by Alanna Doughty, of Lakes Environmental Association, is in conjunction with the club’s continued Stevens Brook cleanup project.
Carol Madsen, who chairs the club’s Environmental Committee, said, “The portion of the trail and brook scheduled for cleanup is where Stevens Brook powered as many as nine mills from the late 1700s into the 20th century. As recently as the 1960s, mills were located on or near Stevens Brook.”
Food City is on the site of the old Pondicherry Woolen Mill, which was built in 1865. “it began using steam in 1889 and employed 225 people in 1904,” Madsen said.
The club is working with Doughty on both the cleanup and the history walk.
Jessica Putnam, president of the Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club, has remarked how wonderful it is to be a Rotarian not only because of our local initiatives, but its work in the district (which includes southern Maine and coastal New Hampshire) and the world.
Some 21 clubs have organized cleanup efforts along Maine’s waterfronts.
For more information, contact Madsen at carjmad@hotmail.com.
