Showing posts with label Lea Brandywine flour mills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lea Brandywine flour mills. Show all posts
Monday, November 12, 2018

Kiln-dried corn meal

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Drying corn in a pan-kiln (patents by 1812, 1816; British patent 1824 at left) for corn meal was said to have been invented at the Lea own...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Revolutionary War rations - bread with water

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Lea flour mills along the Brandywine near Wilmington, Del. provided flour for Washington's soldiers.  Thomas Lea married George Ellico...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

James Lea grafitti at the B&O railroad station 1838

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James Lea (1816-1857) was the son of Elizabeth (Ellicott) Lea (daughter of George Ellicott), and Thomas Lea, of the Lea Brandywine mills...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Lea mills on the Brandywine

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Joseph Tatnall and his son-in-law Thomas Lea, Sr. dug a mill race on the rocky north shore of the Brandywine, and by 1764 there were four...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Brandywine Mills in the Revolutionary War

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During the Revolutionary War the Tatnall and Lea flour mills furnished flour to the American army. Washington and Lafayette visited Joseph...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Lea's Brandywine flour mills near Wilmington Del., 1800

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The famed Tatnall and Lea flour mills in Delaware were visited by many foreigners including the Duc de La Rochefoucauld [1747-1827], who l...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Conestoga wagon deliveries to Lea flour mills in Delaware

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Before the first railroads in the 1830s, huge Conestoga wagons hauled by 6 horse teams brought wheat from Pennsylvania to the Lea mills alo...