Wright's Mill wheel 2006
Remains of Wright's Mill wheel 2006.   Photo above by Robert Croswell

Wright's Mill wheel 2007
Remains of Wright's Mill wheel 2007.   Photo above by Elizabeth Anne Lee, April 2007
Wooden pegs were driven into the square holes of the large iron wheel to complete the "bull gear" which drove the mill machinery. The thin metal blades of the mill wheel were originally covered with wood planks (see mill circa 1954). [Robert Croswell]


Wright's Mill circa 1930s
Wright's Mill
circa 1930s

Wright's Mill
Wright's Mill

Wright's Mill c. 1954
Wright's Mill
circa 1954

Mill wheel c. 1954
Mill wheel
circa 1954

Pop's Murray
"Pop" Murray
Wright's Mill's
last miller
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