Mills & Distilleries, Deerfield Twp from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 13 March 2005

Sources:

The History of Warren County Ohio
Part IV Township Histories
Deerfield Township by Louis F. Coleman
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)


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Our first settlers had to go to Columbia to get their grists ground, but, as time moved on, mills were built along the Little Miami. One was built by William Wood about 1799, where the King Powder-Mills are. It passed into the hands of Hunt & Lowe; then under Isaac Stubbs' control, where it remained until the mill ceased running, in 1877.

Piercy Kitchel built a mill at Foster's in 1806. It passed into the care of Phillips & Clark, who used the mill until it burned, in 1844. Seventeen years afterward, it was rebuilt by S. B. Greeley, who still runs it. Shortly after the building of this mill at Foster's, one was erected by Gov. Morrow about a mile below.

In 1858, one was built in Mason by Kendall & Van Fossen, which, after a few years, was burned.

A woolen and carding mill was kept busily at work for several years at Gainesboro. One was built by Richard Sibbet, in 1823, at Stringtown, south of the "Old Stone" Schoolhouse. This was run awhile and then converted into an incubator; but failure was the consequence and business soon stopped.

In early days, many distilleries were scattered over the township. Some four or five were around Mason; one was north on the McClung farm; one to the east, on the Lewis farm; one southeast, on the Dogstreet road, on the Dill place; one to the west, on the Randall farm. In fact, they seem to have been within calling distance from each other. Of course, these stills were small affairs, yet they converted nearly all the corn raised into liquor. These have all been stopped and none are now running in the township.

In 1877, A. King purchased the grist-mill property from the Stubbs' estate and began immediately to erect the many houses necessary for the manufacture of powder. Everything was soon in readiness and to-day it is one of the most extensive powder-mills in the country and the leading manufacturing establishment in the county. It is known far and wide and goes by the name of the Great Western Powder Mills.


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