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Post date / 2016 / February
- Across the river from the cottage
- In the Tinker Swiss Cottage gift shop area.
- Looking at the Tinker barn and the abandoned Nelson Knitting Company in 2010
- Looking up river on Kent creek
- Walking on the Tinker property looking at an Indian mound.
- Looking across the Tinker property at the abandoned train station.
- On the bridge looking at the abandoned train yards and buildings that once employed many people years ago.
- Another vintage postcard showing the train depot from the wire rope bridge on the Tinker property.
- The Railroad gardens sign from my 2010 tour of the property.
- The Nelson Knitting Company
- The Tinker barn
- The famous Nelson Knitting Company sock Monkey
- Tinker Cottage 2
- Tinker Cottage 2010
- Tinker Cottage 3