1. artificial ponds created by damming a stream to provide water power for operating mills

Examples

• The old millponds still dot the countryside where grain mills once operated.
• Ducks and geese now inhabit the abandoned millponds.
• The millponds were essential for powering the textile mills in the 1800s.
• Local historians are working to preserve the historic millponds.
• Fish populations have thrived in the former millponds.
• The walking trail passes by several scenic millponds.
• Heavy rains caused the millponds to overflow their banks.