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Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) Interior of the Lyme Regis watermill, UK (14th century). A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering.
Watermill lists which summarize the rapidly developing state of research are provided by Wikander 1985 and Brun 2006, with additions by Wilson 1995 and 2002. Spain 2008 undertakes a technical analysis of around thirty known ancient mill sites.
Michigan. Pears Mill, Buchanan; Minnesota. Pickwick Mill, Pickwick, built in 1858; Schech's Mill, Caledonia, built in 1876; Mississippi. Sciple's Water Mill in Kemper County, built in 1790 and owned by four families over the next fifty years. The Sciple family bought the property in about 1840 and has kept it running ever since.
The List of watermills is a link page for any watermill. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2009) Historical mills.
The Watermill (1958 tune) musical composition by Ronald Binge; Watermill, a 1972 ballet by Jerome Robbins; Watermill Theatre, a repertory theatre in Bagnor, Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK; Water Mill, New York, USA; a hamlet on Long Island in Suffolk County Water Mill (LIRR station) of the Long Island Rail Road, in the hamlet of Water Mill
The plant later moved to South Chicago because raw materials could be shipped in via Lake Michigan, as well as an existing labor pool and available fresh water from the lake and the Calumet River. [1] In 1889, the facility merged with three other steel mills to form a new company called Illinois Steel, which later became part of Federal Steel. [1]
A watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour milling (using a pair of millstones), lumber production, or metal shaping (rolling, grinding or wire drawing).
Possible watermill Caesarius of Arles, Sermones, VIII, 4 [14] Early 6th century Cassiodorus, Variae III, 31.2 [15] 510/511 Charter of king Childebert I [16] Paris: 556 Charter Ship mill Charter of king Dagobert II [17] Trier: 646 Charter Charter of king Ethelbert of Kent [18] 762 Charter Charter [19] Wang-Thulbach 754 Charter Possible watermill ...