Doug:

Many years ago there was a huge effort to record mills in the Richard B.
Russell Reservoir in Georgia and South Carolina. (Also in the Wallace/Lake
Oconee Reservior in Georgia, but I think that was a Georgia Power
undertaking). I just ran across a HABS/HEER survey which included really
nice drawings of Pearl Mill, which, if memory serves would be about the
right date and I remember the boiler supports.  It was at the State Archives
in Atlanta.

I know there is also a report on excavations of a bunch of smaller mills.
The following is for an interim report I have but there should be a final
and perhaps additional work.

Newman, Robert D.
1980?  Archaeological Investigations at Seven Mill sites, Richard B. Russell
Reservior. Submitted to the Division of Archaeological Services, Atlanta.
Funded by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah.  Building Conservation
Technology, Inc., Nashville, TN


Sorry don't have exact citations for any of the other work. Good Luck

Jeanne A. Ward, RPA
Applied Archaeology and History Associates
Annapolis, MD



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>Subject: Boilers
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:12:34 +0000
>
>I'm looking for information on steam engine boilers, stone and brick
>boiler bases or platforms, and the archaeological study thereof.  Any
>suggested references?  My study involves an 1870s saw mill.
>Thanks in advance.
>Robert Douglass

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