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This section poses some significant engineering problems. A new railway bridge was required at Stonehouse, where the canal had been culverted underneath the Bristol–Birmingham line. [1] Since the canal was abandoned, the River Frome and the Oldbury Brook have both been diverted to use part of the canal bed. [1]
The Stone House, Manassas National Battlefield Park, is a two-story stone structure in Prince William County, Virginia.It was built as a stop on the Fauquier and Alexandria Turnpike in 1848.
The channel or stream leading from the mill pond is the mill race, which together with weirs, dams, channels and the terrain establishing the mill pond, delivers water to the mill wheel to convert potential and/or kinetic energy of the water to mechanical energy by rotating the mill wheel. The production of mechanical power is the purpose of ...
The mill is a 2+1⁄2-story gambrel-roofed structure, adjacent to a stream-fed millpond supplemented by tidal water impounded by the dam. Dating to the 18th century, it is the only extant, operating tidal grist mill on Long Island.
The Gatehouse at Bonds Mill at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, England, was constructed during World War II as a defensive pillbox as part of the Stop Line Green. It is a rare example of a two-storey pillbox with a rooftop gun emplacement and is a Grade II listed building. [1] It is now used as a visitor centre run by the Cotswold Canals Trust. [2]
Lexington is also in the process of completing a paved one-mile walking trail around the pond, which the town said should be ready to open to the public once Old Mill Pond is full again. The trail ...
A mill dam (International English) or milldam (US) is a dam constructed on a waterway to create a mill pond. [1]Water passing through a dam's spillway is used to turn a water wheel and provide energy to the many varieties of watermill.
In the late 1800s, a vineyard flourished on the island within the Mill Pond's confines. Catawba grapes, harvested from this vineyard, underwent pressing and fermentation within the Stony Brook Grist Mill. The resulting wine was then bottled in Brooklyn and distributed through a nearby tavern.