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Playing on the sympathy of the owner of the local sawmill, Winston leverages his family’s plight to talk his way into a job.
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Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Its rooms would have been well lit by dormer windows of rare sash glass and floored by plank wood, which was difficult to obtain in the interior so far from the sawmills.
—Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
The main attraction of the park is the full sized replica of Sutter’s sawmill.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
But, if this land was once submerged, what about the sawmill?
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 Jan. 2026
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Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Its rooms would have been well lit by dormer windows of rare sash glass and floored by plank wood, which was difficult to obtain in the interior so far from the sawmills.
—Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
The main attraction of the park is the full sized replica of Sutter’s sawmill.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
But, if this land was once submerged, what about the sawmill?
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 Jan. 2026
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“Sawmill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sawmill. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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sawmill
noun
saw·mill
-ˌmil 
: a mill or machine for sawing logs
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