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At the grist mill in Glen Mills, and at others across the world, the rotation of the wheel turns a system of gears that ultimately drive massive stones, slowly grinding grain into flour.
Within its 220-year-old walls on the Nelson side of the Piney River in Lowesville, Woodson’s Mill still produces stone-ground grits ... The overshot power water wheel — the larger of the ...
A couple of these grinding stones are on display outside in the front of the mill. As we walked up the front steps to enter the mill, Jeremy Hunt pointed out a stone in the wall near the doorway ...
The leaves are changing color, the scent of wood smoke is filling the air, and apple brandy is flowing from the stills at George Washington’s Distillery. Mid-to-late October is apple brandy ...
The historical society announced Wednesday that it is under contract to buy Bahr's Mill, a 19th-century stone mill that ... woodworking and corn-grinding equipment, water wheel, and some of ...
The mill used water from two tidal pools to power its grinding wheels Sitting half ... built by three corn merchants in 1761. Three stone wheels were powered by water from a pair of tidal ponds ...