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In 1889, six substantial frame buildings were constructed on site, as well as a railway connecting the stamp mill to the mine, and stamping equipment was installed. [8] Mill number one was a wooden structure measuring 198 feet by 120 feet. [9] The pump and boiler house were located on the south side of the roadway that is now M-26. [9]
West of Georgetown off Stamping Ground Pike 38°13′16″N 84°38′19″W / 38.221111°N 84.638611°W / 38.221111; -84.638611 ( Vivion Upshaw Brooking Georgetown
The William Campbell House in Stamping Ground, Kentucky, also known as the Campbell-Gayle House, is an early house believed to have been built in c.1790-1800. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Stamping Ground School. It was named for the activity of herds of bison in the area. [3] The town was established in 1817 and named Herndonsville for the local Herndon family. In 1834 the name was changed to Stamping Ground. A Stamping Ground post office operated for a short time in 1816.
A stamp mill consists of a set of heavy steel (iron-shod wood in some cases) stamps, loosely held vertically in a frame, in which the stamps can slide up and down. They are lifted by cams on a horizontal rotating shaft. As the cam moves from under the stamp, the stamp falls onto the ore below, crushing the rock, and the lifting process is ...
Landslides would close PCH fairly regularly, and, indeed, last week, the immolation of ground cover sent rocks onto parts of PCH. In the old days, landslides would cut us off from “town” (read ...
Eduardo Javier Ordonez Godoy, 35, was busted after a 22-year-old woman was abducted by a masked man at 4:45 a.m. Christmas Eve and driven around for nearly an hour before being left tied to a tree ...
Beating sheafs of grain against a crushing stone or lump of wood. Trampling grain spread on the threshing floor; the trampling would be done by a train of mules or oxen; Threshing with flails, a type of traditional wooden tool with which one strikes the pile of grain until the seed is separated from the chaff.