In 1862, there were 13 watermills on the Tisa River near Vranjevo. Their arrangement was depicted on a map by the surveyor Stefan Dilber. According to that map, there was also a windmill in Gradište. This means that, in addition to those mentioned in the book 'Novi Bečej and Vranjevo Through History...', there was also this one.
As shown on the presented map, taverns, especially those of a lower class—with prostitutes, were located on the outskirts. At the transition from Vranjevo to Novi Bečej near the Great Warehouse, there were two in close proximity, with one situated on the territory of Vranjevo's hatar (district), called 'Crveni bircuz,' and the other, about ten meters away, on the territory of Novi Bečej's hatar, called 'Bela Lađa.' About the tavern 'Bela Lađa,' the Vranjevo doctor Stevan Vasić, on August 11, 1862, when this map was created, wrote to the Magistrate of the Kikinda District that one person infected with syphilis was 'infected by some prostitute in Bela Lađa.'
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