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Arcadia Mill- Ironstone

Ironstone is a natural resource that was used throughout the site. This sedimentary rock is comprised primarily of iron oxide and sand. Juan de la Rua, the first owner of the property, began mining the stone and sold it to ...

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Caras Park/Missoula Mills Millstone

Missoula’s beginnings can be traced to the Clark Fork riverfront that is now Caras Park. In 1860, town founders C. P. Higgins and Francis L. Worden established a trading post in Hell ...

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Thomas W. Smith's Corn Cracker and Grist Millstone

Thomas Washington Smith was one of the original pioneers to settle Washington in 1857. He must have started to build his mill immediately after arriving the millstones were large and of granite and would have taken a Herculean effort to ...

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Millstone School House

One room school house from 1860 to 1944.

One teacher taught all eight grades.

Enrollment varied with attendance up to 35 students.

Original structure included a belfry.

The Board of Education transferred the building to the

borough in 1949, at which time it became the ...

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Stone Mill

Built by Moore Furman, Deputy Quartermaster General

of Washington’s army.

Marker is on County Route 579, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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This Stone Marks the Site of the Fort at McDowell's Mill

Erected by John McDowell before 1754. It was used as a base of supplies and as a magazine until the erection of Fort Loudon in 1756. The military road from Pennsylvania, connecting with the Braddock Road at Turkey Foot, was ...

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Baylor Massacre Millstone

“This millstone is the only visible marker of the Baylor Massacre in existence today. On September 28, 1778, a detail of Baylor’s Continental Dragoons camping at Haring’s Tannery in River Vale was betrayed into the hands of the British by ...

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Mill Stone

This is the Bottom or Grinding Stone from a grist mill in nearby Ramapo, Rockland County, New York.

Two rotating wheels, turned by water power, ground corn and wheat kernels into flour.

A gift of R.W. Harry Sky

George Washington Masonic Historic Site ...

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Mill Stones

from the "Red Mill" on Whitewater River, north of Brownsville, Indiana prior to 1848

Marker is at the intersection of South Market Street and West Seminary Street (U.S. 27), on the right when traveling south on South Market Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Mill Stone

Used in

Sander's Flour Mill

which began operation

in Council Grove in

1874.

Gift of J.L. Sanders, Jr.

1964

Courtesy hmdb.org

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