When my great grandparents moved into the red (Former Franz Thresher, now Utter) house on North Broad just outside village limits, and had a phone installed. They would later deed it to their oldest son, Lynn, in 1912, who in turn swopped it off with Threshers for the present John Lull farm up by the old reservoir.
These falls are at the ruin of a dam on Burlingame Rd. on the Aldrich Creek.
This detail of an 1868 map of Morris shows the two mills at the Burlingame Falls on Aldrich Creek. Tracy Burlingame ran both a saw mill and a cider using water from the dam.
In the New Berlin Gazette for November 6, 2019, in The Early Files section on page 5 there is a mention of some rough going for a pair of Linn tractors.
November 1, 1919
"A Linn tractor came to the mill in Cardtown after a load of lumber. Recent rains had made the mud very deep near the mill and the caterpillar became buried. A second one came to the rescue and suffered the same fate. As a result the two remained fast until the morning."
