The Miller in Eighteenth-Century Virginia: An Account of Mills & the Craft of Milling, as Well as a Description of the Windmill near the Palace in WilliamsburgFord, Thomas K.
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The Miller in Eighteenth-Century Virginia: An Account of Mills & the Craft of Milling, as Well as a Description of the Windmill near the Palace in Williamsburg
Ford, Thomas K.
Flour mills -- Virginia -- History
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_The Miller in Eighteenth-Century Virginia_ was first published in 1958
and was reprinted in 1966 and 1973. Written by Thomas K. Ford, editor of
Colonial Williamsburg publications until 1976, it is based largely on an
unpublished monograph by Horace J. Sheely, formerly of the Department of
Research.
Transcriber’s Notes
—Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook
is public-domain in the country of publication.
—Silently corrected a few palpable typos.
—In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by
_underscores_.
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