Milling Around: Three Mills on Highway 19 in Oregon County
Fancy knocking three mills off the list of Missouri mills in the Ozarks to visit? Head over to Oregon County and see three in one day.
Milling Around: Three Mills on Highway 19 in Oregon County
After finishing and publishing the book, "Milling Around: Exploring 26 Mills in the Missouri Ozarks," I started thinking about how to make it a little easier for people to visit the mills efficiently. After all, there are 26 of them to see. Granted, there is a map of Missouri that contains all the ...
A Trip to the Summersville Mill
A trip to the Summersville Mill became number 25 for my book on what began as water mills of the Missouri Ozarks. Although this mill never received power from a stream into a raceway, it did use a mill pond fed by springs, and channeled that water into steam power, later replaced by two kerosene ...
A Friday Hop into Hartville
I don’t like to visit a town for just one reason. Take, for example, Hartville, Missouri. If I’m going to spend time in this county’s capital, I want to do more than see the courthouse and historical society. I asked some pals of mine if they’d like to take a hop into Hartville and see what we could ...
‘Milling Around: Exploring 26 Mills in the Missouri Ozarks’ Available in Print or Ebook
Barbara Baird, aka “The Accidental Ozarkian,” has published her first book – a collection of visits to 26 mills in the Missouri Ozarks. “Milling Around: Exploring 26 Mills in the Missouri Ozarks” is a full-color, glossy-covered book that contains descriptions of Baird’s visits to each mill, along ...
Musings of Topaz Miller Joe Bob O’Neal
Joe Bob O’Neal, the miller/caretaker of Topaz Mill in Douglas County, says he gets asked this question: “Have you got this information about the mill documented or written down any place?” He answers, “Yeah, it’s all in my head.” This reason is why I wanted to pick his brain about Topaz, milling and ...
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