Cover title: Grist mills of early America and today.
Original ed. c1978 by Elmer L. Smith.
Summary
"This book focuses on the small neighborhood grist mills which emerged in America and seeks to portray the role they played in the daily rural living. Our space does not permit featuring many of the remaining relics, but the attempt is to offer evidence of the significance of such enterprises as early mechanical sources of energy, as sources of community development, and the relation to industrial and technological advances." [introduction]
Contents: Lanterman's Mill Ohio/ Milling Beginnings/ Early Water Power/ The Mill Stones/ Wheels In Many Industries/ An Iron Making Village/ Modernization/ A Famous Old Working Mill/ Wind Instead of Water/ Down East Windmills/ Little Holland in Michigan/ Amish Energy/ Typical Mill History: Springwell Forge/ Osceola Mills/ Bread And Muffins/ Mountain Mills/ Mill Your Own/ Folklore and Legend/ Inland Mills/ Two Centuries of Muddy Creek Mill.
The better kind of men: emigration from England to Pennsylvania, prior centuries // Let there be gryst mills: early colonization by Swedesand English along the Delaware River, their use of water power //Up the noble Darby River: first generation plantations established and mills increased // The ancient mistery of paper making: America's first paper mill, history of paper making and watermarks // They set the spinning wheels: eighteenth century political and social developments, rapid increase in paper making, through the Revolutionary period // Down to the mill: Expansion and conversion of paper mills, schism within the Society of Friends, migration of some paper making descendants. Abandonment of water power-------Supplement:" The Wookey Hole : watching paper being made by hand " - by Margaret Petroskas // " Seventeenth century Swedish grist mills in the Delaware Valley " - by Carl and Alice Lindborg.// " Golden Grain and White Dust : flour making along the Brandywine " - by Ruthellen Pine Davis // " The Levis House : outings to the old homestead in the early 20th Century " - by Elizabeth Shafner Macdugan // " Coates family reminiscences : malaria and early milling " - Henry Schreve
