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Grain -- Milling -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Buzzard family papers

 Collection
Identifier: c-00555
Scope and Contents This collection consists of three letters addressed to members of the Buzzard Family of Detroit, Michigan. The first letter (1844) discusses the sale of mills and mentions one mill that was destroyed by fire. A letter written in 1849 by three members of the Buzzard family reports their arrival in Chicago to pick up a load of wheat to be carried to St. Clair, milled, and then delivered to Buffalo. The third letter (undated) contains a poem "Indian Lament" about the mistreatment of Indians by...
Dates: 1844, 1849, Undated

Clifton Mill film

 Collection
Identifier: c-00525
Scope and Contents

This motion picture (8mm) film, made at the old Clifton Mill near Romeo, Michigan, shows a man and young boy visiting the mill. The mill ceased operation in 1977 (Source: The Romeo Observer, July 28, 2010)

Dates: undated