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This photograph is one of a series of three photographs made along what the photographer called a Shaker brook. All three photographs were apparently taken at the same time in the winter. All show trees with no leaves with branches, roots, and rocks that have ice on them. It is likely that the brook is one that began as two small streams. One is the continuation of the stream that was dammed to make Triphammer Pond at the Center Family and another that ran just west of the Second Family. The two streams were dammed where they converged to create a pond to operate the Shakers' Carding Mill that once stood just south of Ann Lee Lane. (Ann Lee Lane is the road called Mill Road by the Shakers as it went from the Church Families to the Grist Mill that still stands on New York State Route 22). From the Carding Mill the stream and continued down the hill to operate an old Shaker mill on Ann Lee Lane and then emptied into the Shaker Swamp below. This photograph in the series is title, "On Shaker Road." In the photograph there is what appears to be the remnants of a dam with water spilling over it. It is likely that this is the dam for the old mill (long ago removed). If so, the Mill Road (now called Ann Lee Lane) crossed the stream using the dam as a bridge.