City - Alexandria VA - A view from Pioneer Mill 1865 - Side by S
by Mike Savad
Title
City - Alexandria VA - A view from Pioneer Mill 1865 - Side by S
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1865, May
Original Title: View from Pioneer Mill
Original Photographer: Andrew Russell
Location: Duke and Strand St.
We are standing on top of the Pioneer Mill. Built in 1854, destroyed in a fire in 1897, and just recently discovered again in 2017. When it was running it was the largest steam flour mill in the country. Standing in at 6 stories high, it produced 800 barrels of flour a day, using 4000 bushels of wheat. This mill could produce a lot of product quickly, however, because of that, they needed a lot of material as well. As a result they drained the area dry and suffered financially because of that. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be too big early on.
This image was originally a print so it had a lot of "paper noise", texture to deal with. It was also muddy and dark. Despite that there is still a lot of detail. The image is a little hard on the eyes because of how all the masts line up, but that's true of any marina picture.
I think there is one of every kind of ship they used, including, if you look carefully, a canoe.
I have no idea what that extra thing is in the water in the second port. It looks like a boat that sank, but it seems odd to leave it there. The buildings are all gone, except for one, the Fitzgerald building, which has a certain coffee chain in it, its roughly near that green building.
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March 29th, 2019
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