On Sunday, September 7th, 2003, Kathleen and I ventured to Hagley. Kathleen won a fellowship at Hagley for the University of Delaware, so she will become intimately familiar with the grounds and facilities there. Hagley was founded as what we would call these days a "planned community." The DuPont's (yup, the chemical company) came over from France in the early 1800's and founded this community to produce quality gun powder. The process requires lots of grinding and milling, and there are inevitably destructive explosions. Anyway, it's a beautiful area, so I took some pictures.

Well, this isn't Hagley. Kathleen just got a new car to help her in her graduate studies. Here she stands proudly by it.

This building houses a children's exhibit at Hagley, "Easy Does It."

The Brandywine (not Branduin) River that powered the mills

The same in vertical view. I couldn't decide which I liked better.

The mill race, the stream of water drained off the river at a higher point, and used to power the mill buildings by dropping the water through water wheels

Part of the contraption that powers a powder mill. Water comes in the tube at the top of the picture from the mill race and pushes a rotor that grinds these gears. This one ends up rolling a 15 ton mill stone.

At the school where the children of Hagley went to class once a week, you can try your hand at a quill pen and get your picture taken. We did both.

Odd..

A powder mill

K and a powder mill

One of the previously mentioned water wheels, this one in operation

Then we came home and cooked dinner. It was a good day.