Millstone Industry

Charles D. Hockensmith worked as a staff archaeologist with the Kentucky Heritage Council for 27 years before retiring in July 2008. He has published extensively on several historic industries with special emphasis on millstone quarries, bricks manufacturing, and lime kilns.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by Alain Belmont      Preface      Introduction      1. Early American Millstone Documents, 1628–1829      2. Millstone Quarrying in the United States      Conglomerate QuarriesGranite QuarriesFlint and Buhrstone QuarriesQuartzite QuarriesGneiss QuarriesSandstone QuarriesDolomite QuarriesSienite QuarriesUnspecified MaterialsBoulders Used for Millstones3. Millstone Makers and Urban Factories      4. The Rise and Fall of the American Millstone Industry: Producers, Annual Values, and Decline      Millstone ProducersMillstone ValuesMillstone Industry Decline5. Foreign Millstones Imported to America      EnglandFranceGermanyAll Millstones Imported into the United States6. The Millstone Quarrying IndustryOutside the United States      AlbaniaAustriaCanadaCzech RepublicFranceGermanyGreat BritainGreeceHungaryItalyLuxembourgNorwaySloveniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTurkeyStudies on Millstones and Querns of Ancient RomeMiscellaneous Millstone Quarries and Studies7. Artificial Millstones      8. Tools Used in Making and Sharpening Millstones      Tools Used by Millstone CuttersTools Used to Sharpen Millstones9. Working Conditions and Hazards in the Millstone Industry      Tool Related InjuriesSilicosisOther InjuriesConclusion      Glossary      Bibliography      Index

“fascinating and well worth the read”—Old Mill News; “Hockensmith has done a great service to those who study millstones and quarrying...an important case study...a grand survey...indispensable”—Historical Archaeology.