People · 1777–1860
William Martin Leake
British officer, topographer and traveller
Leake visited the mills in 1806 and described them in Travels in the Morea (1830): the 'Afendiki Myli' or government mills of Nafplio, the wharf and storehouses, the Venetian dam, the gardens that had belonged to the Kapudan Pasha and the khan below the Amymone.
Also written: Ουίλιαμ Μάρτιν Λικ, W. M. Leake, Colonel Leake, Λίκ
Events
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1806
A khan below the Amymone spring
'Just below the fountain Amymone is a khan,' Leake noted, an inn for travellers; beyond it a road to Achladokampos branched off to the right, passing another, ruined khan. Further south he passed Kiveri, a hamlet of six…
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1806
The gardens of the Kapudan Pasha and the mill dam
South of the mills Leake saw a stone dam 250 yards long along the beach, with two shorter cross walls, built to hold water for the mills. Next to it lay gardens full of orange and other fruit trees, which 'formerly…
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1806
Leake: the 'Afendiki Myli' are government mills of Nafplio
The British officer and topographer William Martin Leake visited the mills in 1806. He called them the Afendiki Myli, 'mills of Anapli [Nafplio], to which town they belong', and explained the Greek term as 'government…
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1806
A ship from Smyrna unloads iron at the wharf
Leake found the southern mills close to the shore and to 'a small wharf where vessels load or disembark their cargoes'. A ship from Smyrna lay at anchor, unloading iron, and a row of storehouses stretched from the mills…