A Visit to the Wommack Mill
The Wommack Mill is the central nervous system to the little hamlet of Fair Grove, Missouri. Find out why and how it still works for good.
A Visit to the Wommack Mill
The Wommack Mill commands a second look from passersby. Sitting a short distance off the small town main street in a park setting, the mill is now like the central nervous system of the town of Fair Grove. In fact, the first time I visited Fair Grove, I felt compelled to park nearby, get out of my ...
Hannah Kelly and 3125 Sewing Company
She can be seen almost daily around our locale here in Wright County, selling real estate and catching up with friends in coffee shops and the local feed stores, or attending fund-raising events for worthy causes. She recently added a new facet to her life – a repurposed-quilt sewing business that ...
Milling Around: Three Mills on Highway 19 in Oregon County
After finishing and publishing the book, "Milling Around: Exploring 26 Mills in the Missouri Ozarks," I started thinking about how to make it a little easier for people to visit the mills efficiently. After all, there are 26 of them to see. Granted, there is a map of Missouri that contains all the ...
A Trip to the Summersville Mill
A trip to the Summersville Mill became number 25 for my book on what began as water mills of the Missouri Ozarks. Although this mill never received power from a stream into a raceway, it did use a mill pond fed by springs, and channeled that water into steam power, later replaced by two kerosene ...
A Friday Hop into Hartville
I don’t like to visit a town for just one reason. Take, for example, Hartville, Missouri. If I’m going to spend time in this county’s capital, I want to do more than see the courthouse and historical society. I asked some pals of mine if they’d like to take a hop into Hartville and see what we could ...
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