Author : Franklin F. Webb
Release : 2014-01-10
Genre : History
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The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, Virginia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, Virginia write by Franklin F. Webb. This book was released on 2014-01-10. The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, Virginia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the time of early settlement in Virginia, water-powered mills played a primary role in the state's economy. This work provides an overview of grain milling in Floyd County, Virginia, from 1770 to the present day. Topics covered include the difficulties involved in identifying early mills, the importance of mill site selection, water wheel types, laws regulating mills, the decline of milling and physical remains of abandoned mill sites. The main body of the book provides individual histories of 140 grist, flour, and feed mills, a few of which also processed wool. The histories are based primarily on oral histories, title deed records, and local newspapers. More than 100 photographs and maps supplement the text, and tables provide production figures for various mills from industrial censuses of 1850, 1870, and 1880.