商品簡介
"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 mills, a few of which also processed wool; based primarily on oral histories, records, newspapers"--Provided by publisher.
作者簡介
The late Franklin F. Webb lived in Roanoke, Virginia. Ricky L. Cox is an instructor of English and Appalachian studies at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. He is co-editor of A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region.
