The Maines- Family Session

This was a brand new site for me, Black Rock Mill. Other than bridges, and a few road crossings, there’s not much else made by man in-between, so the trail definitely gives you a feeling of being out in the country.  Neither suburban developments nor rural housing are yet visible from most of the sections of the trail described here. Few people frequent the area mostly because the Greenway trail is new 

The namesake mill is located right off Black Rock Rd. west of Darnestown.  The site is one of Montgomery County’s nicer outdoor exhibits.  Inside the walls of the now roofless old building, displays tell the history and some of the mill’s gearing machinery is preserved hanging, giving a sort of cut-away view of a milling operation.  A steady supply of water used to be supplied by a dam that was located 200 ft. upsteam.  The dam no longer exists and the startling high water marks on the inside of the walls show the magnitude of the floods that came over the last century.


 Black Mill Rock, Montogomery County