Many, Many Mills in York County, Pennsylvania
The Lewis Miller drawing above shows a busy King’s Mill in 1799.
In a previous post I mentioned that, now and in the past, we are impressed by the biggest and the best. Sometimes, though, we must stop and wonder if figures have been exaggerated or misreported.
The following small item caught my eye while reading the York Gazette microfilm at York County Heritage Trust. The newspaper was from the fall of 1877.
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