Title Mill or Tidal Mill

On the twenty-sixth of October, we walked from Sila, through town (Ayamonte, Spain), and across a marsh to get to a tide mill museum. A tide mill is a mill run by the tide. Let me explain the way it works.

The tide would come in and fill the mill pond. At high tide, the people would drop grates to block the water from going out of the pond. Then, when ready, they pulled up the grates and the water would run through a narrow passageway under the mill, called a sluice. When the water went through the sluice, it would spin a propeller wheel that spun a big, circular stone. This stone had another one above it that was stationary. One stone spun and the other didn’t so that the wheat in between would be squished and ground up into grain.

It was pretty cool to see the mill myself and I really enjoyed the museum. I especially like learning about the way of the world from museums, monuments, and places I have visited. Going to different places, like the tidal mill museum, helps me learn more about the history of a different continent. I used to think that Leadville had a really long history but now I realize that other countries have been around a lot longer than the United States. For example, today I saw a tidal mill that was from the 1400's and that seems young when I think about the fact that I have been in buildings from the Middle Ages. And Leadville was built in the late 1800's. I am really excited to see how the Canaries differ from the cities and towns we have seen in Europe so far. –Jack Rabbit