Bulletin - United States National Museum . i. pigure 18.—BarkmiU Detail, 1764. Horse Power and Wooden Gears. The detailof the bark mill from Lalandes Art du Tanneur (Duhamel) suggests thelarge cogwheel, face gears, and wallowers that geared Jacob Squibbs grmdmgmill at Newport, Delaware, early in the nineteenth century. 44 from the Country all around, and from Maryland in greatPlenty. 1° Newport, much like New Castle, declined in importance withthe rise of Wilmington and the coming of the railroad. After 1825,its line road to the interior, its easy docking facilities, and its directwaterway to
Bulletin - United States National Museum . i. pigure 18.—BarkmiU Detail, 1764. Horse Power and Wooden Gears. The detailof the bark mill from Lalandes Art du Tanneur (Duhamel) suggests thelarge cogwheel, face gears, and wallowers that geared Jacob Squibbs grmdmgmill at Newport, Delaware, early in the nineteenth century. 44 from the Country all around, and from Maryland in greatPlenty. 1° Newport, much like New Castle, declined in importance withthe rise of Wilmington and the coming of the railroad. After 1825,its line road to the interior, its easy docking facilities, and its directwaterway to Philadelphia no longer attracted the manufacturingand commercial interests. Thus, the towns once thriving tanneryeventually gave way to the subsidiary activity of bark milling—anenterprise worth noting here only because of the excellent descrip-tion of the mill carried in the American JVatchmmi in 1825. Ownedby Jacob Squibb, the mill was completely equipped to break barkbefore grinding it under one of three stones. The mill was horsepow
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