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Further Reading

Kalamn, Bobbie. The Gristmill. New York: Crabtree Publishing Co., 1990.

Explains how the miller produced flour and why communities developed in areas where gristmills had been built.

Web Sites

"Society for the Preservation of Old Mills," SPOOM http://www.spoom.org/

The Society for the Preservation of Old Mills has valuable information of mills as well as 17 links to mills in Pennsylvania.

Dickinson College Freshman Seminar on Historic Mill Restoration http://www.dickinson.edu/carlisle/barnitz/index.html

A site created by Dickinson College students in Professor Jim Hoefler's research seminar. The project researched a historic structure, the Barnitz Mill, on the Yellow Breeches Creek in Dickinson Township, Pennsylvania.

Newlin Grist Mill http://www.newlingristmill.org

Historical information and educational programs relating to a preserved and operating c. 1704 grist mill on Chester Creek in Chester County, Pennsylvania, which was near the Battle of Brandywine. Information on local environment and ecology and children's page included.

The Mill at Anselma http://www.anselmamill.org/

A link to the 1747 mill in West Pikeland, PA providing history, poem and photographs including some of the restoration project.

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