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An old oil mill

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Author
Hensel, L. W.
Date of Publication
1898
/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, L. W. Title: An old oil mill / by L. W. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Old Oil Mill (Lancaster County, Pa.) Water mills--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History. Linseed oil. Flour mills--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County
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by L. W. Hensel.
Author
Hensel, L. W.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1898
Physical Description
213-215 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 2, no. 7
Summary
This article discusses a mill property in Eden Township , Lancaster County. The mill had several owners during the 19th century, and the mill was used for various purposes: Processing wool, sawing wood, making whiskey, and pressing oil from flax seeds [hence the name "oil mill"].
Subjects
Old Oil Mill (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Water mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Oil mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Linseed oil.
Flour mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 2, number 7 (1898), p. 213-215Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.2
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The paper makers : early Pennsylvanians and their water mills

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Author
Carter, Jane Levis.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
1982.
Call Number
676 C323
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by Jane Levis Carter.
Author
Carter, Jane Levis.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Kennett Square, PA
Publisher
KNA Press,
Date of Publication
1982.
Physical Description
viii, 104 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Endorsed by the Okehocking Heritage Society."
Includes index.
Contents
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
Subjects
Water mills - Pennsylvania.
Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania.
Papermaking - Pennsylvania
Additional Corporate Author
Okehocking Heritage Society.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
676 C323
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The Ephrata paper mill

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Author
Spohn, Clarence E.
Date of Publication
1977.
Call Number
905.748 JHSCV 1977
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by Clarence E. Spohn.
Author
Spohn, Clarence E.
Place of Publication
[Ephrata, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ,
Date of Publication
1977.
Physical Description
p. 37-60 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
In: Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, v.2 (1977).
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes indentures to the property.
Subjects
Paper mills - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.
Paper mills
Ephrata,Pa.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Reference
Call Number
905.748 JHSCV 1977
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Grist mills : together with recipes using their products & notes & illustrations of other early mills

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Edition
Rev. ed.
Date of Publication
1987.
Call Number
664.72 G869
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0911410457 :
Edition
Rev. ed.
Place of Publication
Lebanon, Pa
Publisher
Applied Arts Publishers,
Date of Publication
1987.
Physical Description
32 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
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.
Subjects
Mills and mill-work
Flour-mills
Additional Author
Smith, Elmer Lewis.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
664.72 G869
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The Ephrata Paper Mill

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Author
Sachse, Julius Friedrich,
Date of Publication
1897
. Until within a few years ago the gen- eral impression has been, and the idea is propagated even now, that paper making in America had its origin in the Ivy Mills on Chester Creek in Chester (now Dela- ware) county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1714, and that Thomas -Willcox was the first paper maker. This
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by Julius Friedrich Sachse, Esq.
Author
Sachse, Julius Friedrich,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1897
Physical Description
[323]-341 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 8
Subjects
Rittenhouse, William, - 1644-1708.
Willcox, Thomas.
Ephrata Paper Mill (Ephrata, Pa.)
Paper mills - Pennsylvania - Ephrata.
Watermarks - Pennsylvania.
Paper mills
Ephrata (Pa.) - History.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 1, number 8 (1897), p. 323-341Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.1
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Millers of Chester and Lancaster Counties from Witmer's maps of Chester County, 1873 and Atlas of Lancaster County 1864

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905.748 OASH v.5, no.2
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In: Octorara Area Historical Society ,v.5, no.2.
Subjects
Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Sadsbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History.
Sadsbury (Chester County, Pa. : Township) - History.
East Fallowfield (Chester County, Pa. : Township) - History.
West Fallowfield (Chester County, Pa. : Township) - History.
Highland (Chester County, Pa. : Township) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 OASH v.5, no.2
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The Lower Mearns Mill

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Author
Elliott, Charles Kindred
Call Number
974.821 B926j v.1, no.6
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by Charles Kindred Elliott and Charles Firman Kindred, II.
Author
Elliott, Charles Kindred
Physical Description
p.15-19.
Notes
In: The Bucks County Historical Society Journal, v.1, no.6 (Fall 1974)
Subjects
Lower Mearns Mill (Bucks County, Pa.)
Mills and mill-work
Flour mills
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.821 B926j v.1, no.6
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Water powered grist mills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1825 From the King's Continental, State and County tax and assessment lists at the Lancaster County Historical Society, 1971

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Author
Lord, Arthur C.
Date of Publication
1971.
Call Number
725.4 L866
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by Arthur C. Lord.
Author
Lord, Arthur C.
Place of Publication
S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1971.
Physical Description
1 v. (unpaged) ; 28 cm.
Notes
Typescript.
Subjects
Flour mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Buildings, structures, etc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
725.4 L866
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The mills of the Quittapahilla

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Author
Heilman, Henry S.
Date of Publication
1903.
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 2
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by Henry S. Heilman.
Author
Heilman, Henry S.
Place of Publication
Lebanon, Pa
Publisher
Lebanon County Historical Society ,
Date of Publication
1903.
Physical Description
[295] - 314 : ill. ; 19 cm.
Series
Lebanon County Historical Society papers and addresses ; v.2, no. 10.
Notes
Paper read before the Lebanon County Historical Society, October 16, 1903.
Summary
"About a dozen, or, correctly speaking, fourteen is the total number of grist mills ever erected or kept in operation by its waters. But its saw and flouring mills were a century in advance of its cloth, or wollen and silk mills, its iron mills and factories. For the foundations of the first grist mills were laid almost as soon as the first rude huts of the earliest white settlers in these parts of Penn's Woods had been reared."
Subjects
Mills and mill-work - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County
Gristmills - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County
Water mills - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.819 L441 v. 2
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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062015839;view=1up;seq=317
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The Share grist mills in Pennsylvania

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Author
Share, John.
Edition
Rev.
Date of Publication
1994.
Call Number
725.4 S531
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by John Share, Jr.
Author
Share, John.
Edition
Rev.
Place of Publication
New Carlisle, Ohio
Publisher
J. Share,
Date of Publication
1994.
Physical Description
10 leaves, [5] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Subjects
Share family.
Shearer family.
Share, Ulrich, - 1722-1777 - Family.
Flour mills - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Mills and millwork - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
725.4 S531
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