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Mammoth Spring Milling Company Advertisement
Mammoth Spring Milling Company Advertisement
Farming in Arkansas
This is is an advertisement for the Mammoth Spring Milling Company. The milling company has labels on all of the buildings as well as peak load numbers in order to entice farmers to bring their crops for processing.
Mammoth Spring Milling Company
Mammoth Spring Milling Company
Farming in Arkansas
This is a photograph of the Mammoth Spring Milling Company's main building. Unidentified employees stand by railroad boxcars which would be loaded with processed grains.
Drainage Ditch Workers
Farming in Arkansas
Black and white photograph of unidentified workers improving a drainage ditch near the crossroads of Johnson and Burke in Jonesboro with Riceland Rice Mill in the background. A crane holds up a concrete culvert. Drainage ditches are critical to keeping farmland from reverting to swamp land.
Sorghum Mill At Work, Fulton
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of a sorghum mill at Fulton. There are two mules hitched to a large wooden lever and walking in a circle to operate the mill. A man is sitting by the mill to feed the cane.
Cottonseed Cake Press, Cottonseed Oil Mill In Rose City
Cottonseed Cake Press, Cottonseed Oil Mill In Rose City
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of two unidentified African American men working at a cottonseed cake press in the Rose City Cotton Oil Mill.
Musick Deed
Farming in Arkansas
John Hadly sold his grist mill on Spring Creek off the White River along with all of his hogs to Asa Musick in 1814 for $300. This deed was the first one recorded in Lawrence County, which was formed in 1815. This was a high price for the time period, which indicates that it was a valuable property and that farmers were active in the area.