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Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio (6 P) Pages in category "Grinding mills in Ohio" This category contains only the following page.
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; Jenney Grist Mill, Plymouth, built in 1969 on site of 1636 grist mill
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The mill was constructed between 1868 and 1879 by John Griffin and Levi J. Loveless. Subsequent owners included W. Scott Freeman, his son Winfield, and Newt Pharr. The mill operated into the 1980s, making it one of the last operating gristmills in the county. In the 1990s, the mill was purchased by Gwinnett County and was restored in 2009.
Fallsville, Ohio was a small town in Highland County in existence from 1848 to 1893. [2] The area was first settled in the mid-1820s by farmers Simon and Elizabeth Clouser. [2] They built a grist mill which, as it was the only mill in the immediate vicinity, became successful. [2] Around this additional mills were built, as well as stores and a ...
By the late 19th century, most of the industrial activity in the area had ceased. Water was no longer an economical source of power, and many mills were abandoned. However, one of the grist mills, built in 1802, is still in operation: the Clifton Mill, in the village of Clifton, is open to visitors.
The city of Columbus is located at the fall line of the Chattahoochee River, a place where the river drops 125 feet (38 m) in a stretch of 2.5 miles (4.0 km). This location was recognized early in the American Industrial Revolution as a prime location for waterpowered factories, and the river was first dammed in 1828 (by a predecessor to the now-breached City Mills Dam), beginning what became ...
Augspurger Grist Mill is a registered historic building in Woodsdale, Butler County, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1984-11-01. It was a three-story building with a full basement floor built into a bank.