Rev. Danny Fisher

A picture of the Mill River taken from the Town Bridge in Hamden, CT. Taken with my Samsung A437 Cell Phone.

From the Eli Whitney Museum‘s website:

Eli Whitney, Sr. came to the site in 1798 specifically in order to use the water’s power for running machinery; sixty-two years later his son turned the river into the first public water supply for the city of New Haven. For some decades thereafter, the river continued to provide power not only for the [Eli Whitney Armory's] machinery, but also for pumping its own water into the network of pipes reaching New Haven’s buildings and hydrants. Eventually it gave way, as a power source, to steam engines and electric motors, but it continues to this day to supply water for the city.

Water that powered a city and made guns. Words fail me.