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“What’s a Town Without Mills?” Saturday, March 23rd | 2pm
Join English Historian Marc Meltonville as he explores the ways in which a mill shaped the development of a village in Bucks County, England over the course of nearly one thousand years. *Please note: This talk will be held at the Rachel Kohl Community Library.
Cost: Free
Best Western Staunton, VA
SPOOM Mid-Atlantic Chapter members will meet in the Staunton, VA area (Shenandoah Valley) for Mill Tours including Wade‘s Mill, McCormick Farm and the Frontier Culture Museum from April 11 to 13, 2019. See spoommidatlantic.org/events for details.
Saturday, June 1st | 4pm
Preservation architect Daniel T. Campbell will present an illustrated slide show, recalling the origins of milling in the southeastern Pennsylvania area, and outlining techniques used in finding and documenting historic mills.
Cost: $6 members/$10 non-members
Saturday, August 10th | 4pm
Maryland State Underwater Archaeologist Susan Langley will give a talk on mills from a maritime archaeology perspective. This presentation will include boat mills, the earliest known tide mill, and fulling mills that predate the Industrial Revolution. Cost: $6 members/$10 non-members
Thursday, October 10th | 7pm
Newlin Grist Mill staff will give a presentation on the types of power that mills have used throughout history, as well as discussing the process of building a new waterwheel for the site’s 1704 Grist Mill as a form of experimental archaeology.
Cost: $6 members/$10 non-members