Taney Co. | Missouri | USA | 1973
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Built in 1973 by Bill Cameron, who built the Turnback Mill in Lawrence Co., Mo. near Halltown just off I-44. Funds were provided by Hubie Edwards, hence the name to honor the doner.
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The mill was built using mill parts, equipment & mechanisms from various other Missouri and Kansas Mills. It is now operated by students from the College of the Ozarks that are enrolled in specific course work related to milling.
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These two French buhrstones were quarried in the Pyrenees Mountains of France. They were hauled by oxen from St. Louis to the Joseph Lyons Mill on Beaver Creek, southwest of Ava, Mo. in 1847.
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The elevated flume/sluice conveying water from the mill pond to the overshot wheel.
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Closer view of the flume positioned over the overshot wheel.
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The gate across the road from the mill that regulates the flow of water to the wheel from the millpond.
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The milling room at the rear of the main floor. Two sets of Queen of the South millstones, one visible to the left of center, another set extreme left, then a more conventional set on the right. The under-runner stones were just as the name inplies-the bottom stone was the turning stone.
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A run of stones, a 30" set of Queen of the South stones. These in the basement museum are identical to the two upstairs. The sets was made by the Staub Co of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1847. These French under-runner stones were designed by James Bradford and saw 100 years of service in the "Old Mill" at North Branch, Minnisota.
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Some more milling equipment in the basement. The grey Eureka Separating & Scouring Machine-a more modern version of the fanning mill-chaffed & cleaned. The red New South Corn Mill from the 1660's-the 24" vertical grist mill came from a mill in Foil, Mo. The third machine is a bag stitcher from 1907, used to sew flour sacks closed.
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This is a 16" Side Buhr Mill, a portable grinding mill used at Seneca, Mo. c. 1866. The Rush Fanning Mill from 1882. The side handles made it portale-turned either by hand or other power.
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A T.M. Rumley Two-Hole Corn Sheller, made in St. Louis in 1870. This came from a mill on Tommahawk Creek near the Buffalo River in Arkansas and was donated to Edward's Mill by the builder, Bill Cameron.
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A view of the rear of Edward's Mill at the School of the Ozarks. The mill is located on the School of the Ozarks campus at One Opportunity Avenue, College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Mo. 65726.
The mill, showing the storage addition to the right and the collection of millstones from all around Missouri and showing the loading area to the right for the finished products.
"Israel, you have no right to argue with your Creator. You are merely a clay pot shaped by a potter. The clay doesn't ask, 'Why did you make me this way? Where are the handles?' "
Isaiah 45:9 CEV
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South of Branson on US 65 near Hollister, Mo at the College of the Ozarks campus. |
