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- Dotterer Horizontal Steam Engine, circa 1835 - This horizontal steam engine powered the Fairfield Rice Mill on the Allston Plantation located on the banks of the Waccamaw River in South Carolina. The steam engine operated from about 1835 to 1908, replacing the tidewater wheel that furnished power to the mill since 1800. Thomas Dotterer and his company--manufacturers of several locomotives used on South Carolina rail lines--built this early engine.
- circa 1835
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Dotterer Horizontal Steam Engine, circa 1835
This horizontal steam engine powered the Fairfield Rice Mill on the Allston Plantation located on the banks of the Waccamaw River in South Carolina. The steam engine operated from about 1835 to 1908, replacing the tidewater wheel that furnished power to the mill since 1800. Thomas Dotterer and his company--manufacturers of several locomotives used on South Carolina rail lines--built this early engine.