Episode 7 Stone Mill

* 1742 James Finemore wrote a letter to his brother Thomas Finemore
* James had joined a group of other men that established Stone Mill
	+ a town at the "turning of a wide and deep river"
* Stone Mill appeared on no maps, and its inhabitants unheard from
* some think that Stone Mill is where Weeping Cedars eventually ended up forming
	+ in the "prequel" series in Refugees of Esmerelda, it is revealed that Weeping Cedars is in fact where Stone Mills was
* In may 1748, Thomas wrote in his journal
	+ it had been more than a year after hearing from James
	+ Thomas sent traders to retrieve word of how James was doing
* 3 months later Thomas wrote
	+ the traders returned with word
	+ the rivers name at this time was just "Kandas"
	+ there was a column of smoke rising from the town, but there was no bonfire or anyone to set it in the town
	+ high fences between buildings
	+ there was low keening from the north but when the traders went there, it was heard from the south
	+ one of the four traders saw someone along the forests tree line
		- Yellow Eyes?
	+ the traders made camp down the river, and had nightmares that caused them to leave
	+ "The Crone" is mentioned
* Weeping Cedars was the only other town that Prof Clive had seen with internal walls
	+ 1928 dig by Robert Tulaine showed internal walls in the north east of Weeping Cedars
	+ Tulaine thought the walls were either a response to some danger from the forest, or infighting in the town
* Gertrude Kostermeyer wrote to her sister, Helga Fischer, in 1747
	+ Gertrude was to become a school teacher in Stone Mill
	+ the river was called the "Kandaset" at this time
* a letter at the beginning of 1748 between Gertrude and Helga
	+ mentioned the internal walls
	+ some people who came to the town were set up on the other side of the river from Stone Mill
* in 1780, Stone Ford is established where Weeping Cedars would come about
	+ Two letters mention that there are already some existing buildings at the site
* Lotte Visser wrote in January of 1800
	+ her dying father raved that he saw Lottes brother Bram, who drowned in the river 10 years prior
	+ Visser dad spoke of how he and Uncle Luke came to Stone Ford to build the town
	+ after a long day of building, He was by the fire and saw a light across the river.
	+ Dad and Uncle went across river the next day and found a village in ruins.
		- there was a small fire with a metal grate with a loaf of bread on it
		- no one was in the town
	+ Uncle took the loaf, to Dads chagrin
	+ much of the village to the south of the river burned
	+ crossing to the other side there was considered taboo
* another site was found 6 miles down the river that had similarities to records of Stone Mill
	+ had internal walls
	+ tree ring dating found a match to 1740
	+ known as the "Wilson Site" because not everyone believed it is Stone Mill
	+ Janice Wilson, who found the site, believed it was Stone Mill
	+ shows no evidence of a schoolhouse or other recorded buildings
* the wood found in a dig in Weeping Cedars was from 1790
* at the time, names of towns denoted certain attributes of the town
	+ Stone Ford was on a section that was too deep to cross, so the name could have evolved from Stone Mill
* a burned church was found in a dig with a graveyard with a few bodies in it
* Lee thinks that because of the figure James Finemore saw, who they think might be related to Yellow Eyes, Stone Mill was located where Weeping Cedars is