September 2, 2009

One of the early twentieth-century commercial diamond-mining operations near Murfreesboro (Pike County) was founded by Austin Q. Millar and his sons. One step in the mining operation was the grease tables. Grease tables, shown here at the Millars’ plant on Prairie Creek, were used to separate diamonds from rock fragments.

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