Misc. Potter County, Pennsylvania

With the morning on fire, we hit the road to see some sights before heading back to Rochester.

We came upon two spots in this rural area of Pennsylvania to return to when time and perhaps rubber boots are more plentiful. First, the ruins of the Austin Dam. Its story is the usual cautionary tale or human err and arrogance. The ruins remain after the dam broke in 1911. There are campsites nearby. I’d love to shoot night next to the dam ruins.

This abandoned paper mill that used all that dam water–the Bayless Paper Mill. We couldn’t get any closer because of river flow… Sure, not the 400 million gallons of water that breached the dam in 1911. But we’d need some rubber boots. Soon!