THE NAUGHTY MILL
Mill located in Rarécourt, allowing to discover a part of the history of this small Meuse village.
At the end of the village, fixed to a large stone house, this old cereal mill was transformed into a rogue mill in the middle of the 20th century. The sedimentary layers of the massif are rich in lime phosphate. In the 19th century, the Argonne was the first region in France to exploit these nodule-shaped rocks extracted from the green sands. The mill was then used to crush the rascals to powder them and thus obtain a phosphate fertilizer to fertilize the cultivated land. For nearly 50 years, Argonese production continued and alone accounted for 40% of the French market. But faced with competition from other more productive sites, the activity began to disappear and ceased definitively in 1947 when the Rarécourt mill closed. Nowadays, the mill can be visited and allows you to discover part of the history of this small Meusian village.
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