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Iowa: Land of Many Mills

 by Jacob A. Swisher.

State Historical Society of Iowa, 1940

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Table of Contents

Mills of the Ages
Iowa: A Land of Many Mills
Milldams and Millraces
Water Wheels and Millstones
Sawmills on the Frontier
Going to Mill
Mills of Little Switzerland
Wapsipinicon and Her Neighbors
In the Valley of the Cedar
Mills on the Iowa
Pine Creek and English River
River of Many Mills
Water Power on the Des Moines
Westward Moves the Mill
Happy Is the Miller
Age of Steam
Wheels Within Wheels
Rise and Fall of Wheat
Grasshoppers and Chinch Bugs
Corn Is King
Decade by Decade
Passing of the Old Mill
Old Mills that Survive
Modern Mill
Iowa Mills