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Mon, January 31, 2011

Dear Ron, Interesting to see the spies found at least one mill with seven foot millstones. Does anyone know of such large stones in England at the time?

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Wed, February 09, 2011

Charlie in the USA, artark88@copper.net wrote in highlighting a movement in the opposite direction:

Water Powered Mill Site Archaeology:  Pennsylvania Museum and Historical Commission (U.S.) has received the documentation of 136 mill sites dating 1757 to 1872 within a 7-township, 1-borough area of N. Wayne Co., extreme N.E. cor. of PA.  Two findings were that frontier mills were the nucleii for earliest labor, social, religious and educational cooperation (proto-communities), and that dimensions and foundation openings of sawmills 1,200 miles apart and 50+ years apart (bracketing Oliver Evans’ first, 1795, published plans—concretization of the oral, mill-craft tradition)were almost congruent.  The c.1820s Hiawatha sawmill in PA and the 1770 Hewitt sawmill in FL were compared.

We suggest that European immigrants to the U.S carried a “mental template” of proven mill construction from the Old World.

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