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The Bollinger Mill State Historic website is found in Burfordville, in town County, Missouri. The park was established in 1967 around a mill and span that pre-date the yankee warfare. The park offers picnicking, tours of the mill, and fishing within the Whitewater watercourse.
Mill History: In 1797, [George Frederick Bollinger] received a [land grant] from the Spanish Government and enraptured with many different families from North geographic area to what’s currently Burfordville, Missouri. In 1800, Bollinger began building a log dam and mill on the Whitewater watercourse. In 1825, Bollinger restored the mill and dam victimisation stone. Once Bollinger’s death in 1842, his girl wife Daugherty and her sons continued to control the mill till the warfare, once the mill was burned by the regular army so as to forestall the provision of flour and meal to the gray. Following the war, the mill website was oversubscribed to king R. Burford.
The current four-story brick mill was completed by Burford in 1867 and is constructed upon the stone foundation of the 1825 building. Burford owned the mill till 1897, once the Cape County edge Company took over operations and continued operational the mill till 1953 once the mill was oversubscribed to the Vandivort family, relatives of George Bollinger. The mill was given to the town County Historical Society in 1961 and to the State of Missouri in 1967. 3 years later, the mill was supplementary to the National Register of Historic Places.
Bridge History: Construction began on a bridge over the Whitewater watercourse in 1858, however was delayed many years by the warfare. In 1868, round the time that Burford completed his mill, the city of Burfordville was created and construction was completed on the bridge, creating the Burfordville bridge the oldest of the four extant lined bridges in Missouri. The bridge, designed by town builder Joseph Lansmon as a part of the Macadamized Road Company motorway, is a hundred and forty feet (43 m) long and twelve feet (3.7 m) wide with a clearance of fourteen feet (4.3 m). It’s a Howe truss product of regionally cut yellow poplar. As a part of the motorway, the bridge originally enclosed a toll booth on the east finish, that was used till 1906.
Around 1900, the bridge had fallen into unsoundness, with some missing siding and a part folded roof. The county spent $390 to repair the bridge in 1908, and it had been once more restored in 1950 once a metal roof was supplementary. In 1967, identical year the mill was given to the state, the Missouri State Park system began maintaining the four remaining lined bridges within the state. The bridge was supplementary to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, one year before it had been restored by the park service, at which era the metal roof was replaced with wood shingles. In 1986, the Whitewater watercourse reached record levels, seventeen inches over the deck of the bridge, that broken the bridge and resulted in its closure to each conveyance and traffic. The bridge remained closed till 1998 once repairs to lower trusses, support timbers, and vertical iron rods created it doable to open the bridge to traffic.
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