Ten mills after rewilding

Hi,
Ten Mills site have been cleaned, dug and rewilding (as this means getting the site to be wild again). You can ride to it (as I did) from the 7 mills site down the Yarkon river.

This site is one of five mills sites along the Yarkon River: Mir mill, Abu RabahFarhuya, 10 mills and 7 mills. With this site the biggest of all those sites. It had 20 mills on its peak, might have been the biggest mills site in Israel.

The site also had a bridge in it to cross the Yarkon River. It was called Jaser Al-Dahar (which means the bridge of noise of water). Like most of the sites it was built built during the Roman ear of Israel. It was abandoned for a long time and reused during the 19th century by the Ottomans.

The Ottomans had exploded the site during the time their defense line was based on the Yarkon river on World War I (the line was called the Two Auja line), and to prevent the British from crossing the river. But in the end, not far from here was one of the 3 locations the British crossed the Yarkin River.

When I visited it 5 years ago all you could find is a concrete dam, a closed steel bridge over it and 2 concrete frame (each with 5 columns resembling the name of the site), the frame is still here. You can see how the site looked like before the process in my post here.

Now you can see the pool, the most of the bridge and the mills that are in it. The south side, in Ramat Gan, had not yet been handled of. I do hope it will soon be taken care of and you could walk all around it and see at as it was on its peak.

Take Care
Gad

Looking on the bridge from the lake side - ten miilsLooking on the bridge from the lake side

 

Looking on the mills side - ten millsLooking on the mills side

 

A video of a walk with explanation on the site