On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 22:25:49 -0400 "Larissa Souzer" <lsouzer@hotmail.com> writes: > Meant for the list... I still don't get how Jim gets these if he's not a subscriber... >>From: James Sherlock <jsherloc@gcfn.org> >>To: All Altmans <ALTMAN-L@rootsweb.com> >>Subject: {not a subscriber} Down by the Old Mill Stream >>Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:45:48 -0600 >> >>I tried to tell as many Altmans and Aultmans as I could about this >>picture, but if I missed you -- and if you're interested in the >>Aultmans and Conrads who settled in Holmes County, Ohio -- I apologize. >> >>It shows the old wool-gist mill built by John Jacob Conrad and >>George R. Aultman early in the 19th century. As buildings go, >>it's no Taj Mahal, but you might find it interesting from [a] >>historical standpoint. To see it, go to >> >> http://fpw.isoc.net/KREK/Holmes_Altman_38_02-GIF.html For the write-up, go up one level to: http://fpw.isoc.net/KREK/Holmes_Altman_Mill_Page.htm >>Incidentally, the building has long since succumbed to floods, >>woodrot, and termites. >> >>Jim Sherlock of Columbus, Ohio I don't agree with "long since", since it was there in 1991 when I took some pictures of it (to be uploaded to the web one of these days); the trees appear to be the same as the ones in the above picture, though several years older. However, a couple years ago I swung by and it _is_ now gone :^( (thus the CC to the web page authors to update their notes). I posted about this to the Holmes Co. list at the time, hoping there was an article or something about it when it came down (and why), but nobody replied - maybe this time we'll have better luck... Ron Bauerle, with Aultman and Beck ancestors in Holmes Co, OH: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bauerle/beck/beck.htm