Revisit The Old Mill: Its Creation Defined Texas - Limited Publisher's Edition - Hardcover

W Leon Smith

9780996900690: Revisit The Old Mill: Its Creation Defined Texas - Limited Publisher's Edition

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ISBN 10: 0996900691 ISBN 13: 9780996900690

Publisher: Smith Media, Inc., 2016

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Revisit The Old Mill is a compilation of thousands of hours of research regarding the history of an iconic structure that influenced the entire state of Texas during the late 1800s and early 1900s. This nonfiction account of Texas history explains how the old water mill began as a grist mill and later was converted into an electrical power plant. Built by early settlers, its reach extended statewide. Its influence and impact on those who learned from it resulted in empires and dynasties that came to fruition -- all grounded on this mill that began in a small town. The Old Mill was owned by governors, bankers, entrepreneurs, statesmen, builders, and pathfinders who developed the Lone Star State. The visions, drive, and risks for a state often under attack by Indians were immense, and culminated in the building of cities, railroads, utilities, schools, churches, and additional mills. This book traces the history of The Old Mill, complete with numerous never-before-published photographs, details about the milling process, a look at what the early immigrants were facing, the impact of the War Between The States, and profiles of the heroes who went beyond the norm to make wheat processed at The Old Mill garner "the highest wagon prices of any wheat in Texas." Revisit The Old Mill provides an opportunity to travel back in time, to days of the old west as cities and homesteads began to erupt on the Texas plains, when seeds for the future of Texas were planted and the results were remarkable.

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About the Author

W. Leon Smith was born in Gatesville, Texas on May 29, 1953 and has lived in several Texas cities. Regarding “The Old Mill Project,” the author said, “There’s something magical about planting your feet on the base of the former old mill. It moves you. It’s sacred in that it drives your thoughts into the past, present, and future all at the same time.” He said that “The Old Mill Project” afforded him the joy of learning new things about the people and places connected to the mill and what they eventually meant to Texas. Smith is the author of five books: The Switch Pitcher (a baseball novelette with additional short stories), The Vigil – 26 Days in Crawford, Texas (a day-by-day account), Epitaph (a novel), Plant Your Garden In A Keyhole (a how-to book), and its Spanish version, Plante Su Jardin En Un Ojo De La Cerradura. He is working on several additional books. He is or has been a newspaper publisher, investigator, mayor, movie theatre operator, and author, to name a few of his activities. He received his irrigator’s license from the State of Texas while partnering in a landscaping business in Granbury, Texas and operates a keyhole garden manufacturing company, Keyhole Farm, LLC, (www.keyholefarm.com). During his younger adult years he worked with his father and grandfather drilling water wells with a Fort Worth Spudder, cleaning out wells, and erecting windmills. He builds websites and is learning the intricacies of 3D imaging. Smith received international acclaim in newspaper publishing. His writing has been published in the British Journalism Review, he appeared in Vanity Fair, and he has been featured in newspapers, magazines, radio programs, and television programs throughout the world.. He appeared in the documentary film, Crawford, Texas, and has received numerous Texas Press Association awards of excellence. In 2001, he received the Texas Farm Bureau Excellence in Journalism Award as top print journalist in the state. Smith is a graduate of Clifton High School (1971), Hill College (1973) in Hillsboro, Texas, and attended the University of Texas at the Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas prior to starting newspapers and writing books. He is married to Carole Smith and has two daughters, Allison and Caitlin; a married stepdaughter, Melanie and Michael Harvey; a stepson, Billy Martin; and three grandchildren, Molly, Elizabeth, and Emily.

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