Blaker's Mill, 1933/1991

Containers:

Box 271

Scope and content:

Kemp served as the project leader for restoring the mill machinery and hydraulic system of Blaker's Mill (also called "Blaker Mill" and "Blakers Mill"), an eighteenth century mill, working with Paul D. Marshall & Associates, Inc. He also organized the transfer of Blaker's Mill from Alderson, West Virginia to Jackson's Mill in Weston, West Virginia as part of the effort to turn Jackson's Mill into a museum. The box includes materials used to prepare for the restoration and transfer, including engineering drawings, handwritten notes and calculations, a clipping, a newsletter, correspondence, brochures, photographic prints, report drafts, an oral history transcript and an audiotape. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: maps, engineering drawings, correspondence, brochures, oral history transcripts, report drafts, and budget lists. Subjects include the control of water; engines; pipes; milling machinery; the 4-H Camp at Jackson's Mill in Weston, West Virginia; and Blaker's Mill as it existed in both Alderson and Weston, West Virginia. Highlights include a Geiser Manufacturing Company Supply Trade Catalogue from 1909 and drafts of a Site Interpretation Plan for Blaker's Mill. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 13, Folder 3: three maps (1980-1987 and undated), seven clippings (1988-1991 and undated), and fourteen engineering drawings (1986-1989 and undated).

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