First of all, don't limit your research to grist mills ...
water-power is water-power. The lumbering history has lots and lots
of technical info ... Your first and primary source for
water-powered milling in 19th century America should be Evans and
Jones. Issued in multiple editions, and in reprint. Excellent line
drawings of various mill types ..
Evans, Oliver, and Thomas P. Jones
1850 The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide (13th Edition). Lea
and Blanchard, Philadelphia. Facsimile reprint (1972), Arno, New
York.
After that, I don't know, but here are a few sources that I used for
a mid-19th century sawmill in northern Michigan. Some are popular
coffee table books and some are quite technical ...
Andrews, Ralph W.
1957 This Was Sawmilling. Bonanza Books, New York.
Ewan, N.R.
1941 Up-and-Down Sawmills. Chronicle, Early American
Industries Association 2(17).
Fox, William, Bill Brooks and Janice Tyrwhitt
l976 The Mill. New York Graphic Society, Boston.
Grimshaw R.
l882 Saws (second edition). Philadelphia.
Hunter, Louis C.
1979 A History of Industrial Power in the United States, l780 -
l930. Volume 1: Water Power in the Century of the Steam Engine.
Eleutherian Mill-Hagley Foundation. University Press of Virginia,
Charlottesville.
Weiss, Harry B., and Grace M. Weiss
1968 The Early Sawmills of New Jersey. New Jersey Agricultural
Society, Trenton.
Wood, Richard G.
l935 A History of Lumbering in Maine 1830 - 186l. University of
Maine Studies, Second Series, No. 33. Orono, Maine.
Good luck.
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