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Photographer: Syd Whittle
Taken: February 23, 2007
Caption: Mill Stones
Additional Description: The first flour mill, washed out in the 1862 flood, used two stones. In rebuilding the mill, David Tulloch ordered five sets of stones from Belgium, which were shipped around The Horn to San Francisco. The stones were about 4 feet in diameter. They were made of several pieces of granite cemented and bound together with iron hoops. The grinding surfaces of the stones were grooved and hand cut by European artisans. The remains of the millstones in front of you have been severely weathered by the acid from the oak tree overhead.
Submitted: October 24, 2008, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p40863
File Size: 1.671 Megabytes

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