Mill Hollow Clippings: 1931 Charles Bacon Interview Recalled

The view last evening

We'll close out this look back at various news clippings about Mill Hollow with perhaps the most interesting article of all. 

You might remember that yesterday I posted a small article from April 1931 noting that Miss Blanche M. Jenne, Amherst correspondent for the Lorain Journal, had written a special feature for the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the old taverns of Lorain County. For that article, she had interviewed Charles Bacon, whose forefathers (including his grandfather Frederick Bacon) owned 300 acres of land around Mill Hollow.

Well, in September 1958, shortly after the land that includes Mill Hollow and Bacon Woods was donated to the Lorain County Metropolitan Park System, Blanche M. Jenne wrote a special article for the Journal recalling that 1931 interview. 

The information gleaned from her interview of Charles Bacon included a pioneer history of Mill Hollow and the various mills located there, the history of the Brownhelm Inn, and colorful stagecoach stories.

It's all fascinating information directly from a Bacon family descendant that would be hard to find today.

Thank goodness the Journal made it a priority back then, in a rapidly changing era, to document local history.

Here's the article that appeared in the Lorain Journal on September 29, 1958. Note the great photo of the hairpin curve of North Ridge Road leading down into Mill Hollow. It really was a steep angle back then, before it was altered in the 1990s.