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The '''Babbling Brook Inn''' is a B&B at the base of the Laurel Street hill. In the 1790s the [[Mission Santa Cruz]] grist mill was built on or near this site. The horizontally-mounted undershot water wheel, powered by the force of Laurel Creek water descending the hill, turned the grinding wheel above. The old mill wheel on the B&B grounds (shown at right on today's non-functional mounting, with Laurel Creek running below) is of the later vertical type, and probably came from an early iteration of the nearby [[Kirby, Richard C.|Kirby tannery]] operation.
* Two mission-era mills, using both types of water wheel, have been restored at Mission Santa Inez. A [https://www.sbthp.org/mission-mills-history website has descriptions and diagrams of both types].
* ''The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture'', 4th edition, page 38.

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