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A mill race, millrace or millrun, [1] mill lade (Scotland) or mill leat (Southwest England) is the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel conducting water to or from a water wheel. Compared with the broad waters of a mill pond , the narrow current is swift and powerful.
Wheat middlings (also known as millfeed, wheat mill run, or wheat midds) are the product of the wheat milling process that is not flour. [1] A good source of protein, fiber, phosphorus, and other nutrients, they are a useful fodder for livestock and pets. [2] They are also being researched for use as a biofuel.
It is the site of the first mill in West Virginia, built before 1734. When John Vanmeter received a King's Patent for the land in 1734 in what was then Virginia, the mill was already built. The nine-acre site is on Jones Mill Run, a tributary of the Potomac River. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]
Wye Mill c.1682 The oldest continuously operating grist mill in the United States. Supplied flour to George Washington's Continental Army. One of the first grist mills to be automated by Oliver Evans. The Oliver Evans process equipment is still in use at the Wye Mill. Massachusetts. Dexter Grist Mill, Sandwich, built in 1654, fully restored in 1961
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.
Sutter's Mill was a water-powered sawmill on the bank of the South Fork American River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California. It was named after its owner John Sutter . A worker constructing the mill, James W. Marshall , found gold there in 1848.
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Mill Run, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, closest settlement to Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.