Early 19thCentury Milling and Wheat Farming | History of ...
By the early 1740s, he had built a mill of logs for grinding flour and sawing wood. As fellow Quakers came to the area seeking fertile farmlands, a settlement grew up around " Janney''s Mill ." Local farmers brought their wheat to the mill for grinding, and by 1762, Mlon Janney, Amos''s son, had built a larger, twostory mill of wood on a stone ...