Mill Details

Valentine Mill

Jefferson Co. | Tennessee | USA
Known Dates: Equip Est 1894, mill structure 2004
Township: n/a
Watersource: unknown
Location / Directions

Valentine Mill

From I-40 east of Knoxville, take exit 407 and go south on Sr 66 about 1 mile to a junction with Sr 139/Douglas Dam Road. Go east on Sr 139 for about 5 miles to Deep Springs Road, turn left and go about 1 mile to the mill on the left at 1541 Deep Springs Road.




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Under His wings I am safely abiding...Still I can trust Him; I know He will keep me. He has redeemed me, and I am His child. "Under His Wings" by William O. Cushing 1823-1902
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Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

This is a relatively new mill built c. 2004. Much of the equipment inside the mill came from the Livesay Mill in Kyles Ford, Tn. in Hancock Co.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

The Livesay Mill was built c.1879 and much of the equipment used in the Valentine Mill that came from the Livesay Mill is from about 1894. Look up this link for a photo of the original mill the equipment came from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluebird218/3315626832/

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

The mill was doing water-powered, stone ground, fresh corn meal,grits, and feeds. Also featured custom grinding, which meant that your raw wheat or corn was the same that would return to you in the finished product, perhaps for a fee or for a portion of the finished product in payment.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

The run of stones used to grind corn meal, the shaft to turn the upper stone is fastened to a large gear, powered by water.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

Looking into the top of the rectangular funnel that feeds the corn into the center of the millstone set.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

The gear below the corn meal set that turns the shaft. The large gear is turned by an offset gear that consequently is turned by water power.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

A piece of milling machinery, which perhaps is used to clean the wheat or corn, prior to grinding.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

A corn sheller. Whole ears of corn are fed into the top of the machine. The corn kernels are spat out into the large wash pan, and the cobs dispensed elswhere.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

A flour sifter manufactured by Savage & Tyler, Knoxville, Tn.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

The upper portion of the flour sifter showing the lineshaft and the various pulleys connected to belts, which int turn drive various pieces of machinery. The sifter sifts out the larger particles of flour, these will then be ryn through the grinding system again nin attempts to create a finer flour. The larger particles that are too large, are sifted out as middlings, which can be added to livestock feed.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

The top of the elevator system, also made by Savage & Tyler, in the attic.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

The apparatus might be a station for bagging flour and corn meal.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

Another view of the same area, with the corn meal grinding set in the background.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

The wooden water wheel, approximately 3' wide X 12' diameter. Might be waiting to be installed to operate the mill, or it may be just there for aesthetic effect.

Valentine Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/05/2011

The mill with the owners Mr. & Mrs. Clive Valentine going about some mill work in their daily activities.GPS: 35' 59.32'N, 83' 30.98'W 1,142'/348 meters Douglas Dam Quadrangle

 
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