File SASS-03-02 - "American Watermills"

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SASS-03-02

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"American Watermills"

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  • 1929 - 1983 (Creation)

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1 file

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(1942 - present)

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"Interested in wind and watermills from an early age Jon was further stimulated into a serious study after attending a lecture by Rex Wailes. Following a motor vehicle apprenticeship in Coventry he was joint instigator in saving Wrawby Post Mill from demolition in 1960. He served as Honourary Secretary and later Chairman of the Wrawby Windmill Society. He was technical advisor to the Lincoln Civic Trust in their sponsored restoration of Ellis's Mill Lincoln. He was then offered the opportunity to turn a hobby into a career through Rex Wailes connections and took the position of miller/millwright at Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, Virginia, USA to commission and operate the post mill built to commemorate the earliest known windmill site in British North America.

Since returning to England he has served on the Committee of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Mills Section, Lincolnshire Mills Group and Industrial Archaeology Group.

Jon lives in Lincolnshire Wolds and is married with two sons and a daughter." - from "Windmills of Lincolnshire" (2012) by Jon Sass.

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Correspondence, notes, leaflets, photographs, newspaper cuttings, and photocopies of articles and books on American watermills. Includes the editor's copy of "The Burden Water-wheel" from the Society for Industrial Archeology Occasional Publication 2 (April 1973); bibliography of industrial wind and water mills in the USA; notes on the development of merchant milling; a business leaflet for James Kricker Rondout Woodworking; SPOOM Conference, Youngstown, Ohio literature (1991) including a map of McConnells Mill State Park; booklet on the restoration of Juniata Woolen Mill, Pennsylvania; newspaper cuttings on Jim Bumgarner's pounding mil, Indian Creek, Bryson City; "The Bale Grist Mill" by Denzil and Jennie Verardo (1984); photographs of Hamer Sawmill, Mitchell, Indiana.

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This material may be consulted free of charge at the Mills Archive; please email visitors@millsarchive.org to arrange an appointment.

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  • Box: Jon Sass North American Mills 1