ARMOY'S PLASTERER
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Along the Gorges de la Dranse, towards Morzine, a part of the history of Savoyard industry! A large brick fireplace and a stone building in the background - overgrown with vegetation - are all that remains of the Armoy plasterwork, created in 1844 by Baron Saladin de Lubière, and which was the most important in France until the early 20th century. Operated by a paddle wheel, fed by the Dranse through a small channel whose route is still separate, the plasterer processed gypsum ore, baked in the eight coke ovens - a coal derivative - and then ground into plaster by the three wheels driven by the wheel. It then travelled on a small railway line to Vongy - by road from 1854 in horse-drawn carts to the Château de Montjoux - before being loaded onto the boats sailing on Lake Geneva towards Geneva. It closed its doors in 1934, ruined by competition.
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