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Creation date / 2010 / Week 30
Tinker Cottage
On the bridge looking at the abandoned train yards and buildings that once employed many people years ago.
Looking down river at the old Woodward Governor Company building from 1910 to 1941
The Railroad gardens sign from my 2010 tour of the property.
Tinker Cottage wire rope bridge from the Kent Creek area.
A data plaque from my 1988 tour of the Tinker Cottage property.
Across the river from the cottage
The Od Woodward factory in the water power district with the abandoned train station in the foreground 
Tinker Cottage 2010
Looking up river on Kent creek 
Looking down river at the old Woodward factory from Tinker Cottage
Looking across the Tinker property at the abandoned train station.
Walking on the Tinker property looking at an Indian mound.
The Tinker barn
Looking at the Tinker barn and the abandoned Nelson Knitting Company in 2010