User:Maynbrayce

Around 150 years ago, the mill (now the Mairie) in Plomb ran out of water to drive its wheel. The mill wheel was used to power a communal washing place - so it was important to re-source the water flow.

Accordingly, a very major public works exercise was initiated.

A cut was dug around the nearby hillside to another mill - Le Moulin des Chateaux - on the river Saultbesnon. This ruisseau was approximately 2 kilmetres in length. So in the mid-nineteenth century this was obviously a massive project for the local community - in terms of both resource and technology. The project was very successful - the wheel still turns to this day!

Research on this has been relatively unproductive. Local families have been unable to provide much information and it is thought that any information archived in St. Lo (the department administrative centre) was destroyed when the town was flattened in 1944.

Any contrbutions?