Stone quarries operated in Peninsula from 1856 to 1917 and employed up to 200 workers in periods of peak activity. Products included building stone, flagging, curbing, grindstones, hullers, pearlers, and stones for sharpening scythes and mower knives. The stones were ground here and shipped to customers by wagon or canal boat. The men shown in the (right) 1910 photo are at the West Quarry (Deep Lock Quarry on the south side of Rt. 303, west of Riverview Road). After use discontinued, it became flooded and then was used for swimming.

Milling was the principal industry at Brandywine from 1814, when the village rivaled Cleveland, until the early 1900's. The Wallaces, first settlers of the area, built a saw mill in 1814, a grist mill in 1815, and a woolen mill in 1820. They also operated a distillery, store and post office. The mill pictured here was razed in 1918.

 

Saw Mill, Northfield

Looking like a scene of much activity, this mill had stood at Brandywine Falls until partly washed away in the great flood of 1843. It was then moved to the Hudson-Newberg Road in Macedonia and later enlarged to include both a grist and cider mills.

 

Moody & Thomas Milling Company, Peninsula

This photograph from about 1900 shows clearly how this major flour mill was situated with relation to the Cuyahoga River dam and the canal aqueduct, seen at the right, which carried the Ohio Canal over the Cuyahoga River in Peninsula.

 

 

Photographs. Cuyahoga Falls Library Archives, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.