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Picture Connecticut: Heavy Rain + A Spillway = Photography Heaven
The latest stop is a waterfall under a vintage factory.
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VERNON, CT — This week's stop on the Picture Connecticut tour is perfect for both amateur or professional photographers alike after a heavy rainstorm, or in the case of 2024 plenty of recent heavy rainstorms.
It's the Amerbelle Spillway, a diversion of the Hockanum River that dates back to the Victorian Era textile mill heyday in the Rockville section of Vernon.
The best view of the water is at a small, partially obscured observation pullout near the intersection of East Main and Prospect Streets, not far from the Tolland County courthouses. The river travels downhill from the north and through a canal and underneath the former Amerbelle factory.
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The water congregates in a holding pond and then speeds down another waterfall at the site of the old Ano Coil factory.
The two are the largest among an assortment of waterfalls in the area.
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Picture Connecticut is a weekly series that features images of the state, past and present.Here are past images:
2024
- The ECSU Gallery, Willimantic
- Great Captain Island, Greenwich
- Bobblehead Madness, Storrs
- Bobby Sands/Hunger Strike Memorial, Hartford
- Mr. Jonathan Goes To Hartford, Hartford
- The Latest Discount Airline, New Haven
- State Groundhog Gets Arrested, Manchester
- Historic Wartime Sutures, Willington
- Big Business Week In CT, statewide
- The Marketplace at Guilford Food Center Guilford
- Main Street at night, Middletown
- The Hide-and-Seek Bear, Tolland
- The MLK Mural, Manchester
- The Mount Southington Summit, Southington
2023
- All Faiths Gather At Town Park, Vernon
- Riverside Igloos, Milford
- The TPC Pro Shop, Cromwell
- The Santa House, North Pole, er, Northern Connecticut
- Mile 4 Funnel, Manchester Road Race, Manchester
- UConn Lacrosse Giving Back, Connecticut River Valley
- The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 3, Hartford
- The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 2, Hartford
- The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 1, Hartford
- The Doughboy, East Hartford
- The Walt Whitman Stone, West Hartford
- The indoor bush plane, Hartford County
- The Big Pink Chair, Ellington
- The Notch, Granby
- The CT 9/11 Monument, Westport
- Vintage Gas Pump, Somers
- Tobacco Harvest, East Windsor
- Late Afternoon, Lakeside, Coventry
- Fogarea, New Haven County
- Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens, Washington Depot
- Connecticut River Police Boat, Rocky Hill
- The first dentist, Windsor
- The Frog Bridge, Willimantic
- The World War Bridge Rapids, Putnam
- The Peeking Cow, Tolland County
- The Ivy Lacrosse Tournament, New Canaan
- The Bradley International Airport runway, Windsor Locks
- The Underground Railroad, Unionville
- The cow carousel, Ellington
- Charles Island, Milford
- State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
- Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry, Glastonbury/Rocky Hill
- The Old County Jailhouse, Tolland
- Agent Orange Monument, Andover
- The Sunken Garden, Farmington
- Lafayette Tour Monument, Vernon
- The Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury
- Bob's Discount Furniture Studios, Manchester
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