text: Site of an historic lumber mill and the dam  that  provided water  power for that mill and is the reason  this lake upstream is called Mill Lake. this site is incorrectly identified  by the local historical society  as the Goldbourn Mill built in 1863 but  that mill was  built  on the creek  south of Apsley. This is  the mill that later  took on the name of  the McColl family which operated it until the  mid 1930's  when it was  closed  down by the Workmans Compensation Board because as a jackshaft mill it could not be  made  safe for its  workers. The mill building  itself  collapsed from snowload  in the winter of 1972 . Some of the  foundations  remain  as do  some remains  of the  turbine and shafts. The last traces of the dam  were swept away by ice and spring flooding around 2010. This note was  made  by  Clark Hill the owner of the  land  adjacent to the  site on the west  side of the creek. 