fossis
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This 'old Mill Stone' has traveled a lot in it's time.
It was 'quarried' in Ireland, came to America on a sailing ship, (probably to New Orleans), then up the Mississippi river to the Arkansas on a 'Side wheeler', to Ft. Smith AR.
Then traveled (by wagon) to its location in W. AR, where it was
installed with (its mate) at a 'Grist mill' on a small creek.
The name of the creek on local maps is called 'mill race'.
My Great-Grand-father, & my Grandfather had their corn ground for 'cornmeal' here.
After the mill rotted away,(there are still timbers visible) in the creek, my Grandfather took it to his home.
After WW2, my uncle made a 'bottom step', for the house, I remember it there as a small boy.
After my Grandparents passed away, the uncle moved it to
Muskogee OK where he lived.
When he became 'elderly', we moved it to my sons house in
E. OK, just a few miles from the 'old mill site'.
Its (mate stone) is about three miles from the 'Mill site', at a local mans home.
Maybe it won't have to move much more, I will pass it on to my children (with the story), of the 'much traveled stone'.
Fossis..............
It was 'quarried' in Ireland, came to America on a sailing ship, (probably to New Orleans), then up the Mississippi river to the Arkansas on a 'Side wheeler', to Ft. Smith AR.
Then traveled (by wagon) to its location in W. AR, where it was
installed with (its mate) at a 'Grist mill' on a small creek.
The name of the creek on local maps is called 'mill race'.
My Great-Grand-father, & my Grandfather had their corn ground for 'cornmeal' here.
After the mill rotted away,(there are still timbers visible) in the creek, my Grandfather took it to his home.
After WW2, my uncle made a 'bottom step', for the house, I remember it there as a small boy.
After my Grandparents passed away, the uncle moved it to
Muskogee OK where he lived.
When he became 'elderly', we moved it to my sons house in
E. OK, just a few miles from the 'old mill site'.
Its (mate stone) is about three miles from the 'Mill site', at a local mans home.
Maybe it won't have to move much more, I will pass it on to my children (with the story), of the 'much traveled stone'.
Fossis..............
