Meet at the Green Bridge Parking Area in Thendara at 9:30AM for the 1-mile, round trip hike to the Historic Lock and Dam, originally built in 1888 on the Moose River by the deCamp family to improve navigation into Brown's Tract. Vintage photos highlight the first travel routes into the Tract and early Thendara history including the Peg-Leg Railroad and the Paddlewheel Steamer Fawn. We'll follow an old logging road to the dam and learn about trapper Nicholas Stoner (Nick's Lake namesake), pioneer Abithar Joy (Joy Tract founder), Nicholas & Betsy Vincent (married in 1814 in Brown's Tract), Julia & William Scott deCamp (late 19th Century landlords of present-day Thendara), Nellie Widrick (her date with death in 1899 at the Lock and Dam), and other colorful characters who helped to shape the vibrant history of this scenic section of the Moose River.

This tour to the Lock and Dam, led by Town of Webb Historian Peg Masters, is family and lease-pet friendly. Hikers should bring appropriate rain gear, water, and yes - bug spray. See map link for the location of the Green Bridge trail register starting point. 

The August historic tour will meet at the Busy Corner Park in Old Forge next to the Old Forge Hardware Store. Historian Peg Masters will highlight vintage architecture along Main Street using period photographs of the businesses and people that helped to establish the settlement of Old Forge in the 1890s and early 1900s. Contractors and carpenters have been out in the last couple years making significant changes to the landscape - so we'll take a look at what century-old structures remain, those undergoing restoration, and those that have been taken down. The tour concludes several blocks south of the Busy Corner at the Town of Webb Historical Association on the corner of Gilbert and Main Streets. The Association's Goodsell museum will be open for a free guided tour of its exhibit rooms including the featured story of the pioneer guides of Brown's Tract.