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•••••In 1997 the Ressler Mill Foundation introduced its Heritage Series, a series of publications which share with the community and those interested in milling more than 200 years of grain milling history.
•••••The booklets and portfolios in the series highlight the knowledge documented through the foundation's history projects. During the past decade each item in the mill and home was painstakingly catalogued and preserved by historian and collections curator Cynthia Marquet. Oral historian Debbie Wygent has interviewed 75 people who shared their recollections of bringing grain to the mill, the Ressler family, and life in an eastern Lancaster County agricultural community earlier in the 20th century.
••••• This history and these memories have been preserved, and are offered through the Ressler Mill Foundation Heritage Series to those who would like to know more. The series is available by mail order through:
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Gordonville Book Store
275 Old Leacock Road
Gordonville, Pa. 17529
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Please mail a check or money order directly to the book store, made out to Gordonville Book Store. Sorry, credit card, phone or fax ordering is not available. Prices include domestic shipping and handling. Quantity discounts are available by contacting the Gordonville Book Store for details.
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Volume I: Selected Aspects of the History of the Ressler Mill
This volume by Cynthia Marquet is a comprehensive history of the owners of the Ressler Mill tract dating from 1715. Maps by cartographer John A. Parmer show changes in property boundaries through the centuries. The volume also reviews the milling machinery as the mill changed from a water wheel-powered mill to a turbine-powered mill. It also includes brief information about the Ressler family, who operated the mill for three generations, and some early photographs of the mill. (25 pages) $3.50
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Volume II: Miss Anna Ressler's Classroom
This volume by Debbie Wygent includes excerpts of interviews with students who attended Salisbury Township High School early in the 20th century and documents Anna Ressler's teaching career there and at the one-room Stumptown School. Vivid memories and even a love story bring back the days when students rode horses. (12 pages) $3.50
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Volume III: Musings of a Country Miller, W. Franklin Ressler
"I know the mill and the mill knows me," said Franklin Ressler, a third-generation country miller. His wise and humorous recollections, collected during taped interviews and highlighted by molinologist Stephen Kindig, offer a glimpse of life and work in a Lancaster County mill early in the 20th century. (24 pages) $3.50
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Volume IV: Measured Drawings of Betz's Mill and Bahr's Water Wheel
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The portfolio contains 15 individual sheets of measured drawings to the specifications of the Historic American Engineering Record, Department of the Interior, reduced to 8 1/2 by 11-inch format. Nine sheets record the now-destroyed log construction circa 1770 Betz's Mill of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and its "wooden age" grain milling machinery. Six sheets record every construction detail of the still-existing 1897 millwright-built 14-foot diameter wood overshot water wheel at Bahr's Mill in Gabelsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The wheel is built to millwright Thomas Ellicott's description in Oliver Evans' book, "The Young Mill-Wright and Miller's Guide," 1795. $7.50 |
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Volume V: Measured Drawings of Mascot Roller Mills
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This portfolio contains 24 individual sheets of measured drawings to the specifications of the Historic American Engineering Record, Department of the Interior, reduced to 8 1/2 by 11-inch format. The drawings completely detail the mill structure and its extensive water-powered flour and feed milling machinery. Four sheets present clear perspectives of the flow of wheat and corn through the complex milling processes. These are probably the most complete measured drawings of an existing American water-powered roller mill. $7.50 |
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