Comments on: A Sizeable Footprint – Watkins Mill https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/ Our Changing Life Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:27:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Jeff & Crystal https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/#comment-2981 Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:32:45 +0000 https://ourchanginglives.com/?p=19403#comment-2981 In reply to T.

You are like us then. We were completely unaware of this hidden gem.

]]> By: T https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/#comment-2980 Tue, 05 Apr 2022 03:08:59 +0000 https://ourchanginglives.com/?p=19403#comment-2980 Gotta stop by sometime Jeff. I worked in the applebees building about 10 years ago and i never knew that is what that place was about

]]> By: Jeff & Crystal https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/#comment-2979 Mon, 04 Apr 2022 23:28:22 +0000 https://ourchanginglives.com/?p=19403#comment-2979 In reply to Scott Wilson.

It’s interesting the things we learn about the world around us. Too often people believed the ends justifies the means.

]]> By: Scott Wilson https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/#comment-2978 Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:01:46 +0000 https://ourchanginglives.com/?p=19403#comment-2978 This property also housed a boys reformatory. It was ran with “positive peer” culture, that was later shut down.
I built part of that park, and, laid roads.
It was very cruel child labor..
DYS: Division of Youth Services ran it. They were later shut down sometime after 1985.

]]> By: Jeff & Crystal https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/#comment-2977 Wed, 05 May 2021 17:24:05 +0000 https://ourchanginglives.com/?p=19403#comment-2977 In reply to Anonymous.

Of course. This is something that is not well documented in the museum exhibits. Thanks for pointing it out.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/#comment-2976 Wed, 05 May 2021 11:30:07 +0000 https://ourchanginglives.com/?p=19403#comment-2976 I live near Watkins Mill. It is indeed a beautiful historic site but we must remember the slave and child labor that made his success possible. Down by the mill were rows of slave cabins. The foundations still exist. The home was also built with slave labor. We must remember history but we need to remember all of it. It is well worth the visit but give all remembrance.

]]> By: Jeff & Crystal https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/#comment-2975 Mon, 03 May 2021 09:45:15 +0000 https://ourchanginglives.com/?p=19403#comment-2975 In reply to Karen Warren.

It’s fun learning about the lifestyles of those who had less modern conveniences.

]]> By: Jeff & Crystal https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/#comment-2974 Mon, 03 May 2021 09:44:18 +0000 https://ourchanginglives.com/?p=19403#comment-2974 In reply to Bola.

We agree wholeheartedly. The past has so much to teach all of us.

]]> By: Karen Warren https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/#comment-2973 Sun, 02 May 2021 09:40:40 +0000 https://ourchanginglives.com/?p=19403#comment-2973 It’s always so interesting to get a glimpse of how people lived in the past – another great slice of history!

]]> By: Bola https://www.ourchanginglives.com/a-sizeable-footprint-watkins-mill/#comment-2972 Sat, 01 May 2021 16:17:52 +0000 https://ourchanginglives.com/?p=19403#comment-2972 What an amazing discovery. I believe young people will benefit from this history behind the Watkins Mill.

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