Thanks Brian, Duke, Ray, Wojtek And JM for the kind replies. Brian here is
the history of the mill for you.
LR
HISTORY OF THE OLD MILL
Greenfield Village Museum: Loranger Gristmill
From colonial times and into the first half of the nineteenth
century,
gristmills flourished in America by meeting an important local need
in
agricultural communities: grinding the farmers' grain with large,
circular stones, and levying a toll, usually in kind, for the service.
This
particular mill was originally constructed by Edward Loranger, a
brick
mason from Quebec, who originally came down to help erect a
church. Loranger stayed on in the new country, feeling the new
settlement needed a grist and saw mill. He himself hewed oak timbers
for beams, cut with a broad axe the whitewood siding of the building,
and cut logs for a dam in the river to impound the water for power toturn
the wheels.
In some especially productive localities, mills grew large and
millers
operated as merchants, buying and exporting the area's surplus grain.
Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, however, the opening of the
great grain-producing areas of the West, railroad construction, steam
power, and the growth and concentration of industry eventually drove
most of the small local mills out of business.
After the Village opened to the general public in 1933, the interest
and activity around the Loranger Gristmill grew as the sights and
sounds of the spinning, grinding wheels gave the public a first-hand
glimpse of an earlier age. The turning wheels could grind one barrel
of flour (whole wheat or buckwheat) or corn meal an hour. Some of
the milled grain was used locally while the rest was packaged in
three
pound sacks and sold to the public.
An early portrayal of living history.
The mill sits now as a museum piece: the grinding wheels are there,
but they no longer grind; the water wheel spins, but just for show;
the store no longer sells flour or corn meal.
Maybe one day that will return.
SOURCE: http://gfv1929.blogspot.com/2008/08/loranger-gristmill.html
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Well done on all
counts Larry.
Do you have the history of this old mill?
Cheers,
Brian
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The Old Mill.
LR
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