The Fitz Water Wheel Company's Restoration of Peirce Mill

One of the1930's proposed restoration drawing for Peirce Mill, Rock Creek Park,
Washington, D.C., done by the Fitz Water Wheel Company, Hanover, Pa.

It is a great drawing, but it does not provide information such as: what was in the mill at the time of restoration, and what they installed that came from other mills of the same time period. The Fitz Water Wheel Company was known for doing things that would work and function over being totally historically accurate. The one problem with be totally historically accurate to a period, is that on paper it may not be practical or be able to function correctly. The millers of today and yesterday did adaptions to the work of the millwrights. Millwrights did not know how to make flour, or operate a mill, this was a skill only of the miller. So the Fitz Company would be as historically accurate as possible with the results being a mill that a miller could operate.

The second floor of Peirce Mill during the Fitz Water Wheel Company restoration.

The Fitz Water Wheel Company's Restoration of Peirce Mill, Part 2.

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