{"id":4119,"date":"2016-10-08T00:10:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T04:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2016-11-08T20:58:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T01:58:43","slug":"in-focus-preserving-the-mill-preserves-the-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2016\/10\/08\/in-focus-preserving-the-mill-preserves-the-town\/","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: Preserving the Mill … Preserves the Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is at the center of the village along Main Street in Volant, Pa., with a dam on the Neshannock Creek.<\/p>\n

The Mills is now used for shopping and gifts wrapped around two ton milling stones, gears, shafts through three floors, processing equipment, shuckers, and pulleys mounted in the ceilings. <\/p>\n

The Mills is a restoration project of the Volant Community Development Corp.<\/p>\n

Karen Rockenstein, on the board of directors with the V.C.D.C. which is the owner of the grist mill since 2008, said that the “Mission is to restore the grinding process.”<\/p>\n

To control the water flow to power the turbine, Karen said that $9,000 is needed for the steel gates near the Neshannock Creek. <\/p>\n

The dam is also property of Volant Mills and the dam was damaged from thick ice in the cold winter season of 2014-15. The water level needs to be higher for the water to reach the steel gates.<\/p>\n

Karen said that the Corporation is seeking funding to repair the dam and that permits have been granted but don’t have the funding of $500,000 to complete the work. <\/p>\n

“Preserving the Mill preserves the town,” said Karen. <\/p>\n

\"Karen<\/a>
Karen Rockenstein is framed with the new cribbing\u0094 used in the basement of the Volant Mills. The \u0093turbine\u0094 is located below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Karen<\/a>
Karen Rockenstein stands along the dam on the Neshannock Creek in Volant, Pa., that was damaged by the thick ice from the winter season of 2014-15. The water level is lower due to part of the wall of the dam\u0092s collaspe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Some<\/a>
Some of the pulleys on the third floor. The third floor is where the main processing was performed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"One<\/a>
One of several orginal machines used to process wheat products on the third floor. This is the top portion of a \u0093buckweat shucker\u0094.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A detail of one of the wooden pulleys on the third floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Some<\/a>
Some of the pulleys used at the Volant Mills.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Karen<\/a>
Karen Rockenstein is behind a Bolting Reel on the third floor. As it revolved the flour would pass through the cloth material while the bran would remain in the reel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Volant Mills was established in 1812 and is one of the few remaining wooden grist mills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volant Mills was established in 1812 and is one of the few remaining wooden grist mills.<\/p>\n

It is at the center of the village along Main Street in Volant, Pa., with a dam on the Neshannock Creek.<\/p>\n

The Mills is now used for shopping and gifts wrapped around two ton milling stones, gears, shafts through three floors, processing equipment, shuckers, and pulleys mounted in the ceilings. <\/p>\n

The Mills is a restoration project of the Volant Community Development Corp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":4123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,187,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[22],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/10\/SS_20161007dsVolantGristMill1008InFocus10.jpg?fit=3000%2C1887&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}