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Restoration Effort
Images from November -December 2004



Progress on recent restoration work on hurst frame, millstones, and machinery pit/shaft.

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Millstones and millstone floor removed for repairs to hurst frame

Millstones stored at south end of main floor

Scaffolding erected in basement to support the millstone load on the main floor

lifting stone at Peirce Mill

Installing the new right front corner post on the hurst frame

Top of the hurst frame after installation of new cross beams to support millstones

View of Machinery pit showing broken main shaft

photo of peirce mill lumber photo of lumber to build new waterwheel

Machinery pit before removal of gears and vertical shaft View of pit after removal of spur wheel, wallower gear and vertical shaft Removed spur gear stored on main floor

Removed vertical shaft Millstones stored on main floor Documentary photographer, Mike Dolan, at work

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