Bane’s partner was Andrew Murray (we live in the house that he built on the hill outside Metamora). Andrew and his wife are buried in the cemetery on Little Duck Creek Rd just north of Metamora.
Interesting note, Andrew Murray’s daughter Katy married Andrew Johnson from Blooming Grove who was the proprietor of the later grist mill down by the Hearthstone lock which produced White Rose flour. That mill is shown in the county atlas reprinted by the Franklin County Historical Society. The whole area around that lock (#24 I think) was called Millville and there were several hydraulic powered mills located there. No trace of any of those has survived. Those mills, and others in Brookville, that depended on the canal for water power are the reason that this particular stretch of the canal was maintained. The combination of the existing mill, locks and aqueduct with still usable canal is the reason that this area was chosen to be designated a state historic site. |