In Moncione there are two rather large constructions that are a little apart from each other: they will be more than a hundred years old and all demonstrate them, one of these constructions the largest widely reveals the traces of the activity that took place in it, a large granite wheel lying on the floor, outside a conduit of water now collapsed into several parts and a small fenced area in masonry that evidently served as a deposit to collect water It is clear that it was an old water mill, the old local farmers tell that it was the largest in Elba.
Moncione has now become in its abandonment a place of memory of a few elderly people who remember with emotion a youth with few leisures, times of exhausting jobs, and little well-being, the heirs of the mill are silent and leave these walls prey to the time that every day feed by producing damage that will shortly be irreparable.
There were four mills in the municipality of Campese, three in the plain of Campo and the other the most majestic was this, the Moncione mill.
This mill worked for about twenty years, it is said, until 1911 when Assunta Battaglini the owner was seized by what they then called “a bad boy” who led her to death at only 59 years of age, the place was abandoned and everything went down the drain
(text taken from www.mucchioselvaggio.org by Fabrizio Prianti)
