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Holzapfel, Cottle and Stoddard's Church History in Black and White: George Edward Anderson's Photographic Mission to Latter-day Saint Historical Sites, 1907-08, Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center Brigham Young University, 1995, 97.
22 May, Wednesday, Haun's Mill [page 60] Made a negative of this showing the location of dam by two boys at each side of the stream. Can get a fair view of location of the mill, blacksmith shop, etc. from a bare hill on the south of the creek and west of the mill. The exact location of the well cannot be made, as the ground has been plowed and farmed. Two of the McLallen boys agree on [blank].
23 May, Thursday, Haun's Mill [page 68] James E. McLallen, Ed, met me and with axe he brought soon cleared off the trees that obstructed the view of mill, creek, etc. This view we made from the south side of the creek and looking northeast [blank]. Crossed the creek and located one of the old millstones, which we worked out of the ground and down to the edge of the creek and made two or three negatives of it, putting an inscription on one side. Mr. H. Elmer Parker [and] Levi Nichols furnished paint and brush. The other stone had not been able to find. Was used for a step at one of the houses for a number of years. . . Made a general view of the site of Haun's Mill site [page 70] from the north looking southwest, showing bluffs and timbers on south side of creek, and it was from this direction and likely at this point when the mob came out of the timber. When they attacked the settlement, a heavy growth of timber was here. Also the road out of the south [?] I am told.
Anderson, 98-99 (photograph from hill) and 102 (photograph of exposed rocks on south east bank). [Similar detail in photograph in Journal of History, 9:142]
Anderson's photographs seem to suggest mill location was just about where the stream turns northward toward the eastern edge of the property. Photograph appears to show remnant of dam timbers creating a little cascade- where the stream changes from deeper water to shallow. [This appears to contradict Jenson's 1888 suggestion of the mill location- saying the dam was immediately below a high bank of yellow clay. Cascade may be the result of a rock bottom and indicate the location of a wagon ford. (See Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 3:680).
Dave McEwen closely examines exposed rock bottom at the supposed location of the wagon ford.
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