By Philip Hasheider

This book guides you through the era in which flour and grist mills dotted the countryside. Few histories have so thoroughly told the story of these rural mills, their owners and the local impact they had. Mills helped stabilize early communities and were catalysts for their growth. With the aid of 150 vintage and rare photographs and extensive documentation, this book provides a window through which to examine the lives of the seventy-five people who owned the twelve mills that existed in the Honey Creek Valley for over 150 years. Relive those days and the human dramas that unfolded with a variety of consequences—some delightful, some devastating, but all exceptionally interesting and forever woven into the local fabric. 216 pages.