What is this Mill?

[BuckleBoy]

Hello All,


I figured I'd just post this here--someone will know the answer, and it will be an easy "Solve."

On one of my maps there are two mills that are listed as an "S.S. Mill." Just wondering if anyone had any ideas on that one. The other mills are just listed as "Mill."




Any help is appreciated.



-Buckleboy

[Don in SJ]

Hmmmmmn, never saw that on any of my maps, but perhaps Sluice Sawmill Hopefully someone will have a quick and obvious answer for you.

Don

Guess #2 - Steam Saw Mill

[lostcauses]

any silver mines in the area/ could be a sliver stamp mill.

[Montana Jim]

Buckles...

State Saw Mill

You're welcome.

Jim

[Don in SJ]

Buckles...

State Saw Mill

You're welcome.

Jim

LOL, I hope it is in Kentucky than that would not be it for sure, since Kentucky is a Commonwealth But, knowing Will, it is probably a neighboring STATE, but somehow I like Steam Saw Mill better. They were portable saw mills.

Don, sticking to guess #2, and that is what it is.....a guess

[Montana Jim]

Buckles...

State Saw Mill

You're welcome.

Jim

LOL, I hope it is in Kentucky than that would not be it for sure, since Kentucky is a Commonwealth But, knowing Will, it is probably a neighboring STATE, but somehow I like Steam Saw Mill better. They were portable saw mills.

Don, sticking to guess #2, and that is what it is.....a guess

Big Don! pon firther research I am reading Steam Saw Mill... but the references are "assuming" that's what they are called... because all they had was SS Mill to go by as well. My State Saw Mill came from a PA reference... calling them SS Mill/s (State Saw Mill/s).

My NEW reply is Steam Saw Mill.

You're welcome.

LMAO!

[Don in SJ]

We have had a few Steam Saw mills in this immediate area, but I have not ever seen reference SS, I have seen G Mill for Grist Mill and S Mill for Saw Mill, but I will look at some of my older maps now and see if any other types listed.

[Montana Jim]

I have been noticing that KY is often referred to as a state especially by it's own government...

mid 1800 PA maps use SS Mill, and maybe the same map maker did the same in the Commonwealth?

[Don in SJ]

Here is a link for a 1872 map of my area and there are several mills, but no S.S. Mills, just S.M and G.M. Never heard the term State Sawmill before, interesting.
http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/1872Atla...County1872.jpg

[civilman1]

Soapstone Mill.....Maybe!!

[Mackaydon]

"S. S. Mill" used here (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsumner/1878pllz.htm) to designate a saw mill.

[BuckleBoy]

Wow~! I hadn't thought that the replies would still be coming in. In this case, it is not a Commonwealth--but rather a nearby state.

There is no creek nearby either of these mills.


So is "Steam Saw Mill" is the best guess?



-Buckles

[Mackaydon]

Buckles:
By any chance are you looking in Tenn.?
Don..

[BuckleBoy]

I'm pretty sure that these two mills were structures--not portable mills (unless I am misunderstanding the term "portable"). They were on an 1880's map, and by 1906 they are still there--not designated as Mills anymore, but rather Residences.


-Buckles

[Montana Jim]

Here is a link for a 1872 map of my area and there are several mills, but no S.S. Mills, just S.M and G.M. Never heard the term State Sawmill before, interesting.
http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/1872Atla...County1872.jpg

Okay... I may have really been WAY off base on this (the PA thing I mean). Referencing the "State Saw Mill"... It may have been an area, an address, or something other than a mill. Since I have no clue about what I am saying, I'm gonna shut-up now.

[BuckleBoy]

Here is a link for a 1872 map of my area and there are several mills, but no S.S. Mills, just S.M and G.M. Never heard the term State Sawmill before, interesting.
http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/1872Atla...County1872.jpg

Okay... I may have really been WAY off base on this (the PA thing I mean). Referencing the "State Saw Mill"... It may have been an area, an address, or something other than a mill. Since I have no clue about what I am saying, I'm gonna shut-up now.

Dang! We've lost Jim!

[Don in SJ]

Steam Saw Mills, maybe I should not have used the word portable, but somewhere in the deep recesses of my memory bank that adjective came to mind. The two Steam Mills I know of, both had permament structures, both were much later in use than the vast majority of saw mills in this area, and both were not next to a stream/dam.
Steam Saw Mills, cough cough, now known as SS Mills? I believe were in use in late 1800's into 1900's. Most of the saw mills in this area were built on streams with a dam and they are almost all from the 1700's to very early 1800's.

Don

[jimbob450]

Could it be a Silaca Sand mill? There is
one about 20 mi. north of us but were
not in Kentucky either. Just a n idea. Jimbob

[ivan salis]

is the area next to water - if not * a portible type steam sawmill is high possible --- they were movible to where they were cutting wood at esp near train track areas. thus they moved finished product via the trains

[Don in SJ]

is the area next to water - if not * a portible type steam sawmill is high possible --- they were movible to where they were cutting wood at esp near train track areas. thus they moved finished product via the trains

One of the two known steam saw mills I know of in my area was within a few hundred feet of a RR that was active from late 1800's to present. The other one is in an isolated area, close to a very small stream, not large enough to dam the water for sawmill use.

Don