Caleb,

Thank you.  I have perused your report and will gladly add it to my
files. Mills and industrial archaeology are my thing and it bugged me
that I could not make complete sense of this installation. Within
minutes of posting my message to HISTARCH, I received a phone call from
the head of Leffel Turbine Co., whose company installed a similar
looking turbine at a Clifton, Ohio mill in 1869 that I saw on the net,
and to whom I had sent a similar email with the same photos last night.
I hoped they would be able to at least give me an idea of who made this
thing. Ends up it was installed by Leffel in 1922 and rebuilt by them in
1939!  They will be sending me their files on this, including the
detailed files of the salesman who sold it and oversaw the installation
in 1922 and rebuilding in 1939!  They also confirmed that the turbine
runner in Figures 5 and 6 is from a vertical axis turbine that was
removed in 1922 for the Leffel installation. Persistence with Google
pays off... again!

Jim 

PS Paul Webb now has his own firm: Webb & Associates. 

James J. D'Angelo, RPA, Ph.D.
Archaeologist
TRC 
4155 Shackleford Road Suite 225
Norcross, Georgia, 30093
770.270.1192  x125 phone
770.270.1392  fax
404.580.2079 cell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Caleb [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:38 AM
To: D'Angelo, James (Atlanta,GA-US)
Subject: Roswell mill site

James,

One of my colleagues forwarded me your post on HIST Arch about the small
hydro mill in Roswell.  I had a project in western NC that encountered
an old hydro waterwheel system.  I gave a paper on it at the 2004(?)
SEAC.

I have attached the report to this e-mail.  I think most of the
formatting has held up but there may be some quirks in there somewhere.

I have worked on another mill (not a hydro mill) in Guilford County, NC
(Greensboro) if you need additional info on mills in general.

A while back I sent some mill-related sources to your TRC colleague in
Chapel Hill, Paul Webb.  One of the sources was a report about mills in
NW Georgia.

Let me know if you need more info.

Caleb Smith
NCDOT Archaeology