Getting Water from Here to There
To secure a safe and reliable water source, Greenville needed a reservoir. City leaders hired American Pipe Company, which, under the name Paris Mountain Water Company, bought Mountain Creek's forested watershed and built this dam around 1890.
From this altitude, gravity carried the water into town with no need for a pump. However, a valve was needed to control the flow out of the lake. This stone structure was built to house the necessary mechanism.
The valve inside, similar to that which now controls the outflow of Lake Placid, is merely a combination of simply machines. Nevertheless, time has left it inoperable.
Marker can be reached from State Park Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
