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15 stops in route order. Everything is readable and playable here, whether or not you're on the trail.

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  Georgiaville Pond may look natural, but you're standing…

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  Georgiaville Pond may look natural, but you're standing beside a man-made reservoir on the Woonasquatucket system. The shape of this landscape was engineered around waterpower.

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• 2The pond was created and expanded because stored water…
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• 3So when you walk across it, you're crossing…
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• 4This broad earthen dam is more than a wall holding back…
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• 5At the end of the dam is the spillway, where controlled…
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• 6Below the spillway, the water drops into a narrow gorge
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• 7After heavy rain or spring snowmelt, the gorge gets…
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• 8The stream curves away from the spillway and back…
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• 9Look out across the pond for pine-covered islands
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• 10In the old picnic area, stone fireplaces still survive…
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• 11Georgiaville grew as a mill village because of water…
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• 12Downstream industry, including the Bernon Mill system,…
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• 13Later, the Providence-to-Springfield railroad connected…
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• 14The town renovated the beach in 1991, adding another…
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• 15Here's one of the stranger local-history mysteries:…
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