Florewood
Plantation Sawmill
Steam engines were used to cut logs
on the plantations for the construction of houses and barns.
What kinds
of equipment were operated with steam
engines?
Answers:
steam engines were used to power sawmills, planing machines, shingle mills,
grist mills (for grinding corn),
sorgham mills, rice threshers,
cotton gins;
and woodworking machines.
Corn was an important food staple for
slaves and planters.
It was eaten as hominy, which is corn with
the hull and germ removed; grits which is ground grains of corn; and
cornbread, the most common bread of slaves, although they also ate
rice bread, rye bread, and wheat bread.
Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 30 April
1996.
