While we were in Brattleboro, after giving up trying to turn left across the highway to this gas station:
I ended up making a right turn and then turned turning left into Creamery Bridge in order to turn around:
While filling up at the gas station, I heard the sound of falling water nearby and decided to investigate by peering over the railing alongside this not-pedestrian friendly road:
What I found was a well-hidden and unmarked waterfall along Whetstone Brook:
I also noticed that deli marooned on a triangular island bounded by streets, but that’s another story, not this one.
Whetstone Brook flows by the south edge of downtown Brattleboro. The falls there were harnessed to power a paper mill. This 1907 postcard captures the falls with the dam extant:
Here’s what Whetstone Brook Falls look like these days:
(Photo from web – it was raining too hard to get a picture)
