Title: The water-powered mills of Floyd County, Virginia
Description: "Topics covered include the difficulties involved in identifying early mills, the importance of mill site selection, water wheel types, laws regulating mills, the decline of milling and physical remains at abandoned mill sites. It also provides individual histories of 140 grist, flour, and feed mills, a few of which also processed wool; based primarily on oral histories, records, newspapers"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historic sites, Local History, Antiquities, Water mills, Historic buildings, Mills and mill-work, Pictorial works, History, Flour mills, Virginia, history
Places: Floyd County, Floyd County (Va.), Virginia