Historic Water Mill in Jackson County, Florida

hi my name is Robert Daffy and I'm here today with two egg TV and we're in a special place today that most people don't know about as it's a wonderful landmark and it's the name of is actually the sextons meal mr. JW + JW deal Moore and his wife they're gonna show us about this mill it's a grist mill and it's actually a stone ground at run by water and so come along with us and let's watch this and learn something about grinding corn this comes from Sears & Roebuck and what we do would take it and we put it in the barn door sit down on the end of it take your corn and hook it on the nail and split the shook in half and then shook you : and then we put it in basket over here okay just to let you know about the meal house here there's a retaining wall right across here that holds the water back into the pond there's a solid wall from from right about here to that wall that only has one hole cut in it in it's the gate for the meal closes that hole up but now these three posts here on the end of them is a is a flood gate if I have a lot of rain and have to get rid of a lot of water I can just pull those gates up and let the water go but here where the the gate is that controls the meal I can pull that gate up and it lets the water go through a chute into a box that contains a tub type turbine and that tube type turbine is it's got a wooden box surrounding it to make the water go through the turbine and turn it and the lighter not bearing there's one just like that and that metal turbine sits on that and turns of course when you turn the water to it water is pulling over this water cools so so it never wears out that's just one that has been second out at war little one-sided my thoughts about it back in the twin is of course I was born in 39 and I've been here all my life and I have brown corned on it my daddy used to have cows in the woods and he and the man would go with round up the cows and bring them in and he leave me here to grind while he was gone so I would run the mill and bag the mill while he was doing his cows and I shucked corn at Brown corn we even had a meal run we sold mail to the different stores and we delivered meal on top of that saddle that this rock sits on is what we called our rattle staff and you'll see when I turn the water to it how this turns and it makes this checkered but like that it and the coin falls out to go and it gets between the rocks now there's grooves cut in both surfaces of rock the top of the bottom rock in the bottom of the top rock and they're wider in the center and worked out the shallow in the edge so that the corn is it grinds in the meal that'll work out to the edge then you just put a hoop around it to catch it and cut a hole in one side here and there's no rock turns it it makes the meal come out and you catch it in the box down there this watch called a laser beam she feels a hopper up for a corner and while it was grinding he'd lay here and he'd take them a no block of wood we've got up in the top there and make him a pillar and he'd lay down here and sleeps and every now and then he'd get up and he'd reach over here in the corner and he'd get his boggle and he'd take him a little sip and then he laid back down and hope the mils didn't run out of corn this goes back to the eighteen eighteen eighty four this building everything here and the deal wars have preserve this and we're still working at preserving it and we want to thank them so much for what they've done to preserve what was left to them and preserve it for us we could come and see it because there's not any left pretty much that I know of even in North Florida but they were there were hundreds of them everywhere Mac I'm entertainers telling me started counting how many were here and and everybody was in the short wagon ride to a grist mill and one of the main things is here in the south corn was a stable and without that corner folks could survive so anyway we want to thank this forum is deal more for showing us this and I've got to bring it out again we've got a little piece of wood here it's probably put it in there in 1884 and it's a little counter thing to put the corn in there but the magic of it is it's been used all those years and it's still there this piece of persimmon little thing about that to catch my attention and maybe it will be yours I want to thank you for coming in watching two egg TV I hope you learned something today and we've got this ability see I'll take care and we'll see y'all later you

Channel: Two Egg TV

Views: 6,381

Rating: 4.8165135 out of 5

Keywords: mill, water mill, grist mill, sexton mill, dilmore mill, kent mill, alford, florida, jackson county, 19th century, historic site, travel, tourism, landmark, history, florida history, northwest florida, florida panhandle

Id: LXKTmOaUZOM

Length: 6min 59sec (419 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 03 2016