Justine Christianson (Author)
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 31
Issue: 2
Pages: 27-38
At the turn of the 20th century, huge piles of oyster shells could be found outside the numerous seafood packinghouses of Maryland. Shrewd businessmen soon found lucrative uses for oyster shelh, such as crushed for use in grit for poultry or burned to extract lime for agricultural fertilizer. Using documentation and research done by the Histonc American Engineenng Record in 2004 on a grinding mill currently owned by the Colvert Manne Museum, this article explores the oyster industry in Maryland, the uses for oyster shells, and the examples of grinding mills and their applications, focusing on an extant grinding mill once owned by the F. & H. Benning Company of Galesville, Maryland.
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