The postwar village · Water and mills · Industry and trade
Barber Ali's mill is still at work
1957 Probable
In 1957 the local historian A. P. Tsakopoulos wrote that of the Turkish watermills only the one of "Barber Ali" by the Kroi spring, north of Myloi, survived and was still working. It still carried the name of its Ottoman owner and belonged to the heirs of Georgios Vasilopoulos.
- Where
- The water mills, Kroi spring
- Threads
- Water and mills, Industry and trade
- Certainty
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
Sources
- A. P. Τσακόπουλος, «Το πρώτον παγοποιείον Μύλων–Λέρνης», Άσπις του Άργους, 20 October 1957, p. 4
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