Places
Kroi spring
7 events
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18 February 1826
Barber Ali's watermill is sold
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…
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1865
A miller from Kynouria leases the mill
In 1865 the heirs of the Nafplio buyers leased Barber Ali's mill to Georgios V. Vasilopoulos from Mesorrachi in Kynouria. His family would keep the mill for almost a century.
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13 February 1874
The state leases the fishery up to the 'Mill of Barberaga'
A state tender for the fisheries of the Argolid described the fishery of the river of Argos and the Almyros as running from Litharakia to the Almyros 'at the place of the Mill of Barberaga'. Eels were caught in these…
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1875
Vasilopoulos buys Barber Ali's mill
In 1875 Georgios Vasilopoulos bought the mill he had been renting for about 7,000 drachmas, to be paid off over ten years.
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April 1907
First stone of the ice factory Amymone
In early April 1907 the first stone of the first ice factory of Myloi was laid behind Barber Ali's watermill. The founders were the cousins Ioannis Vasilopoulos, a distiller in Tripoli, and Konstantinos G. Vasilopoulos,…
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13 July 1941
Aerial photo: the northern water mill on the shore
North of the village the photographs of 13 July 1941 show a mill building of about 21 by 7 metres on the shore, fed by a walled, dead-straight mill race from the northern spring at the foot of Pontinos, with an outlet…
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1957
Barber Ali's mill is still at work
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…
People
- Georgios V. Vasilopoulos Owner of Barber Ali's watermill
- Konstantinos G. Vasilopoulos Co-founder of the ice factory Amymone
- A. P. Tsakopoulos Local historian (1957)