Courtesy of William Gayer, Rock Valley, Iowa 51247 This is the
remains of a stationary engine which ran the Watkins Mill near
Excellsior Springs, Missouri before Civil War Days. This Mill is
now in the process of being restored for a State Park as it will
not be far from Interstate # 35 now being built several miles west
of Excellsior Springs, Missouri, near Kearney, Missouri. The
picture was taken on March 15, 1966. This engine has a long boiler
with 4 return flues about 10′ in diameter. The large wheel
shown on picture ran the water pump for boiler. The crank shaft
extended into the building which was on 3 floors run with line
shafts the length of the floors. In the basement floor was a stone
mill where grist was ground and the other floors had wool spinning
and carding and weaving machines.
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