Sometime in the late '30s early 40's while walking this particular stretch of Rolling Mill Bank Road with my dad, he told me about working for the Chew More Gum Factory as a kid of about 12 to 14 years old at this very spot where the race from the dam farther up the North East Creek flowed here -second photo -under the road to re-merge with the down stream creek. I think it was located where the cement base is just visible in the first photograph. His job was to take a metal hammer and beat away at the hard candy encrusted walls of a large tumbler machine that had worked all week tumbling thousands upon thousands of layered candies commonly called 'Jawbreakers'. His pay had been minimal he said but he could take home bags of the broken away pieces of the hard candy that he had pounded away from the metal walls of the huge tumbler. Even then, when we walked there, the building was gone and no one else I knew then - or since - remembered that long ago Chew-More Gum factory. And other water powered businesses that gave the road its' name are long forgotten. If the road remains unbridged this whole stretch of town road will revert to nature and haunt of homeless people dreaming away their existance.
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