Happy Tuesday & Happy National Eat a Peach Day! Peaches are one of the most enjoyable fruits out there. They are rich, delicious, and their aroma is enough to fill the air with the sweetest smell that makes them irrisitable. All this to say, stop by your local market on the way home, pick up some peaches and enjoy! 🍑
In This Issue: Echoes of the Past: Exploring Sope Creek’s Papermill Ruins | RJ45 Crimp Tool | What Are Console Cables and What Are They Used For? | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Echoes of the Past: Exploring Sope Creek’s Papermill Ruins
Good Morning & Happy Tuesday! Once again, I hope everyone is surviving the unrelenting heatwave! I hope that after this week we start to get a bit of relief!
Fortunately, Saturday morning wasn’t terribly hot and I had a chance to get outside for a short hike with some friends. We went to Sope Creek Trail in Marietta, GA which is part of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (say that 5 times fast 😉). The trail itself isn’t my favorite. It’s kind of in the city, easy to get lost, and parts of it run alongside the road which doesn’t exactly give that relaxing sense of being out in nature. That said, the highlight of the trail is some old stone papermill ruins that hold historical value and are really something to see!
The mill was built back in the late 1850’s and housed the Marietta Paper Mills which manufactured news print, wrapping paper, and stationary. It was constructed next to Sope Creek and used the power of the water to run the mill.
Given that the mill was constructed shortly before the civil war, operations were much more difficult than anticipated. It ended up being shorthanded often and unable to produce at capacity due to workers being pulled away to fight in the war.
In July of 1864, the mill was actually burned by the Union army on their march towards Atlanta. After it was destroyed, it was fairly quickly rebuilt in 1865 but burned again in 1870. Incredibly, it was restored again in 1871 and was operational until 1902. Now, over 160 years after its original construction, all that’s left are some stone ruins. It’s both beautiful and a bit eerie to walk around in the ruins and imagine what it used to be like so many years ago. If you’re local and enjoy history and being outside, I absolutely recommend going!
Rebecca
Product Spotlights & Updates
This RJ45 crimp tool was designed with a built-in stripping blade to cut or strip the wire. This product will work with Cat5, Cat6, and Cat6A RJ45 ends.
Learning Center Article – What Are Console Cables and What Are They Used For?
Console cables — also known as Cisco cables, rollover cables and management cables — are designed for a specific purpose. They connect Cisco networking devices to terminals or PCs for configuration. Typically, the Cisco end will connect via RJ45, and the terminal end will conclude in a serial connection.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- More retail earnings are ahead.
- Mortgage rates soared to the highest level since November 2000, crushing affordability for potential homebuyers.
- The Food and Drug Administration approved a vaccine from Pfizer that protects infants from respiratory syncytial virus, the leading cause of hospitalization among babies in the U.S.
- Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq.
- A string of decade-long Google executives have changed jobs in the last several months.