Pictures of old grist mill

[mr.fred]

Great pictures Kate!------my thing is the stone work on the building---i like it--i can picture them doing it[8D]

 

[pyshodoodle]

Workers house. Our former neighbor, Pete Genther, who died in his 90s, ripped the roof off of this to replace it. Was going to redo it for his mother to live in. I'm not sure if she died or what, but the roof never got replaced and it is now in ruins. This belongs to the neighbors, so I can't just go in there without permission and dig around. (They tell me it's dangerous and a rock may fall on me.) They had someone repoint part of it a few years back, but didn't do the whole thing.

 

[pyshodoodle]

Glassman - I know what you mean. By metal detecting around the place, what I have learned is that it didn't always look this nice! There's weird garbage all over the middle of the yard!
Back of the house. 1900's addition. (aka kitchen & bathroom[])

 

[pyshodoodle]

Roof of wagon house. This belongs to the other neighbors. They used to have an antique shop in it. They're now in their 90's

 

[pyshodoodle]

Side of house.

 

[pyshodoodle]

Front of house from across the street near where there used to be a chicken house. There were 3 chicken houses here when I was little. Morels grow every few years next to an old almost dead apple tree near here.

stupid yellow line in the middle of the road was added in the last 10 years or so.

 

[pyshodoodle]

Lookng at the mill from the side of the house.

 

[pyshodoodle]

My Great Grandmother's sundial

 

[pyshodoodle]

OK - That's about all I have.
Hope some of you enjoyed this. I know it's not bottles, but it's not often that you see all the equipment inside an old gristmill. If the buildings themselves weren't ripped down, usually the equipment has been ripped out. (And possibly turned into a HOUSE![X(]).. At least they are still standing, if that's the case.
I remember visiting a working grist mill when I was a kid. Smelled great! was really neat, too. Don't know if they're still running it or not.

 

[pyshodoodle]

ORIGINAL: mr.fred

Great pictures Kate!------my thing is the stone work on the building---i like it--i can picture them doing it[8D]

Do you do stonework? If so, you can come help my dad. As you can see, his patch jobs are just that!

There was a story that my dad had heard back in the 70s about one of the builders losing or placing his pipe in the mortar while they were building it. Just a few years ago, while my dad was repairing the window in the old office, he found pieces of pipe stem in the mortar.