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The millstones for a corn cracker are slightly different than those for a flour gristmill. The ability to grind different materials seems to be the means whether it is called a corn cracker or gristmill. Coupled with this he had to care for and maintain a family it seems almost more than a person could do., Apparently the difference between a corn cracker and gristmill is the ability of a corn cracker to grind corn into course corn meal and the gristmill to grind wheat into fine flour.
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It is almost beyond comprehension to think he arrived in Washington in early May 1857, went to the base of Pine Valley Mountain and found large granite boulders these he cut into millstones, by hand, and built a mill on Machine Creek all in 1857.
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He must have started to build his mill immediately after arriving the millstones were large and of granite and would have taken a Herculean effort to shape and transport them to the mill site. Thomas Washington Smith was one of the original pioneers to settle Washington in 1857. Smith's Corn Cracker and Grist Millstone.
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