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 ...