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Creation date / 2010 / July
- Tinker Cottage
- On the bridge looking at the abandoned train yards and buildings that once employed many people years ago.
- 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
- Tinker Cottage 2010
- Looking up river on Kent creek
- 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
- A Nelson Knitting machine on display in the Tinker Cottage.
- A Nelson knitting machine in the Tinker museum
- A Nelson Knitting machine on display in the Tinker Cottage. The Nelson factory is(abandoned) on the Tinker property.