Results for Millstones
Results for Millstones
Millstones Long in the Service of Pioneers
[Plaque One:]
These Millstones long in the Service
of our Pioneers dedicated to their memory
by the Edgar County Historical Society
1817 - 1927
[Plaque Two:]
From the Lewis Jones Farm near Nevins
presented to
Edgar County by his son
William Shields Jones, M.D.
of Redmon
1861 - 1949
Marker is on ...
Millstones from Emison Mills
The larger millstone is made from French Buhr cut into wedge-shaped pieces and bound together by a heavy metal loop. A “stand” is made of two similar stones, the “upper stone” rotating on the “nether stone” to grind wheat and ...
Millstones
A Precious Commodity
These millstones were used to grind wheat and corn into flour. Glendale oral histories tell us that in 1870 these burrs, as they were called, were brought here from Toquerville, Utah, 100 miles away.
Histories written about this area ...