Just outside of Elk Falls, we came across an Historic Marker. I had never heard of Prudence Crandall before, she definitely seems to have been a woman before her time.
Elk Falls is a small town of less that 200 people that billed itself as the World's Largest Living Ghost Town. The Falls themselves are on the eastern side of the town. "The natural waterfall is about 10 ft. high and approximately 100 ft. wide, formed by the stone outcropping across the river. It was once the site of a water-powered grist mill which was build in 1875. The water was originally channeled to one side by a log dam in order to turn the water turbine. Floods washed out the early wooden dams until the curved stone dam was constructed by Jo Johansen, a Swede from Minnesota. This stone dam is still standing well over 100 years and many floods later. The falls are easily viewed from the 1893 Iron Truss Bridge, or hike down to the the water's edge on the massive limestone slabs lining either side of the river." (Source)
Photos of the Falls
The view downstream from the Falls.
