Inside A Flour Mill
One of the first industries to benefit from American industrial innovation was flour milling. Oliver Evans published The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide in 1795, and his patented principles of design spread quickly. Evans' mechanized system required manual labor "only to close the barrels."
The main driveshaft of the waterwheel powered the grinding stones and mill machinery through gears and smaller driveshafts. Hopper elevators and screw conveyors moved grain and flour around the mill. By the mid-19th century other advances included belt drive and water turbines.
Marker is at the intersection of South 12th Street and East Canal Street, on the right when traveling north on South 12th Street.
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