Revolution and liberation · Industry and trade · Water and mills
Barber Ali's watermill is sold
18 February 1826 (6 February 1826 old style) Probable
Under the law on the sale of former Ottoman property, decree no. 16,817 sold the watermill of "Barber Ali" by the Kroi spring, with about 40 stremmata of land, to six men from Nafplio for 1,441 thalers. In 1832 they divided the fields but kept the mill and its garden in common.
- Where
- The water mills, Kroi spring
- Threads
- Industry and trade, Water and mills
- Certainty
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
Sources
- A. P. Τσακόπουλος, «Ιστορικαί Σημειώσεις – Το πρώτον παγοποιείον Μύλων–Λέρνης», Άσπις του Άργους, 20 October 1957, p. 4, Digital Library of the Hellenic Parliament
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