Posted by Nebraska Cowman on November 14, 2014 at 14:55:26 from (166.182.3.27):
In Reply to: What are these? OT posted by Richard G. on November 14, 2014 at 11:28:04:
Yes, it seems smaller than most water power grist mills I have seen but maybe it was a small stream? It was real common in the pre steam, pre gasoline engine days to throw a dam across any steam and harness the water power. My Great grand dad ran a saw mill out of the Brokenstraw creek in the 1880s and sold hemlock shingles by the car load. There were several dams in that stretch of creek. My grandmothers family had a dam further down on a side steam in the 1840s. That area of PA was all pine forest at that time and they would float the logs down to Pitttsburg, maybe on down to the port. Lots of tall straight pines were floated out for ship masts.
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