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                                      Luesther T. Mertz Library/New York Botanical Garden

                                             The Lorillard snuff mill, on the grounds of the New York Botanical Garden

               In the attic of the Lorillard snuff mill in the Bronx, the gears and pulley for a hand-powered elevator still work

If it weren’t for the low midwinter sunlight raking its ancient field stone walls, the 169-year-old snuff mill — now sitting quietly on a wide bend of the rapid river — just might disappear from view in the dun-colored camouflage of the sycamore and oak trees that surround it.

This is not everyone’s image of the Bronx

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