The young kingdom · Industry and trade · Water and mills
Vasilopoulos buys Barber Ali's mill
1875 Probable
In 1875 Georgios Vasilopoulos bought the mill he had been renting for about 7,000 drachmas, to be paid off over ten years.
- 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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