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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