Really cool place that offers tours of a basket making factory in Odessa, Ontario all run by water. It was built in 1856, it was supposed to be a flour mill, but big cities could ship flour to smaller towns cheaper so it was used build boxes...In 1907 Herb Babcock started Babcock Baskets...
They also manufactured truck bodies at the mill until the late 60's when the J.H. Babcock & Sons Limited moved to Toronto.
In 1977 The Babcocks sold the mill to the township and in 1986 Don Babcock, an original grandson, rebuild and restore of the machinery from memory...from when he was a child...amazing.
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