The water-powered mills of Floyd County, Virginia : illustrated histories, 1770-2010 / Franklin F. Webb and Ricky L. Cox.

"Topics covered include the difficulties involved in identifying early mills, the importance of mill site selection, water wheel types, laws regulating mills, the decline of milling and physical remains at abandoned mill sites. It also provides individual histories of 140 grist, flour, and feed mill...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Webb, Franklin F.
Other Authors: Cox, Ricky L.
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2012.
Series:Contributions to southern Appalachian studies ; 30.
Subjects:
Historic buildings > Virginia > Floyd County.
Historic sites > Virginia > Floyd County.
Mills and mill-work > Virginia > Floyd County > History.
Water mills > Virginia > Floyd County > History.
Floyd County (Va.) > History, Local.
Floyd County (Va.) > Antiquities.
Historic buildings > Virginia > Floyd County > Pictorial works.
Historic sites > Virginia > Floyd County > Pictorial works.
Mills and mill-work > Virginia > Floyd County > History > Pictorial works.
Water mills > Virginia > Floyd County > History > Pictorial works.
Genre:
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:348 pages : ; 25 cm.
Format: Book

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