he helped establish mount holyoke. he was -- he said amherst college from distinction committee is also a major supporter of massachusetts act, which any decades later became massachusetts day, now known as the university of massachusetts. >> that's an interesting question, and i'm so thrilled you know so much about the valley. skinner did not work with samuel wilson. wilson was an extraordinary capitalist in the mill valley and help support many industries therein. at one point i believe he was a partner with the hayden so started the hayden glass company of which you saw a portion of your earlier and which is on the cover of my book. like he did not do business with william skinner, no. thank you. >> sera, at skinnerville, what survives? hasn't been any kind of serious or amateur archaeological search for evidence of the mill? i mean, what can you find if you go to the site today? >> that's a great question, bill. if you go to skinnerville today, you will find a stretch of highway and you will find a few houses along

holyoke was considered to be the greatest power.a dam on the right hand side, right here, is the crest of a 60-foot tall in the river and capable of generating 30,000-horsepower, which and average values 100-horsepower, that was capable of generating power for 300 bills. the cotton lords that created holyoke on the model, devised a three-tiered canal system so that unfortunately it doesn't show on this map what the canals -- the first canal comes like this. so the connecticut river was able to be used over three times. now, holyoke made offers to the manufactures in the valley. and skinner is the only one who accepted the offer and moved. and he's the only one who survived. skinner new two things. to be able to make a go of it again. he needed money, and he needed water power. in skinnerville, he was going to have to rely on sees if the rebuild their because the reservoir which itself in the mill river during the dry season was not going to be rebuilt. so going forward during the dry seasons when the river ran low, skinner was going

he helped establish not holyoke -- mount holyoke. he said amherst college from distinction, and also was a major supporter of massachusetts aggie, which many decades later became massachusetts state, now known as the university of massachusetts. >> that's an interesting question, and i'm so thrilled you know so much about the valley. skinner did not work with samuel wilson. wilson was an extraordinary capitalist and the mill valley and he helped support many industries therein. at one point i believe he was a partner with the hayden's distorted paid nebraska but of which you saw a portion of their earlier. but he did not come he did not work with william skinner, no. thank you. >> at the skinnerville, what survives? has there been any kind of serious or amateur archaeological search for evidence of the mill? i mean, what can you find if you go to the site today? >> that's a great question, bill. if you go to skinnerville today, you will find a stretch of highway and you will find a few houses along the side of it. some of which are o