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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 200-foot–long (60 m) concrete dam creates the mill pond north of it by impounding the Ramapo River. It was created by Stephen Sloat in 1792, and renovated two decades later. It was the earliest of three dams on the river in today's Rockland County that supported milling operations; today it is the only one that remains mostly intact, [ 2 ...
Mill Pond Falls is a waterfall located in Newington, Connecticut. It is promoted by residents as the "smallest natural waterfall in the United States ". [ 1 ] The falls are located inside Mill Pond Park and is celebrated each fall during the Waterfall Festival.
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 .
Ascutney Mill Dam, also known as the Windsor Upper Dam and the Mill Pond Dam, is an arch-gravity dam which is one of the oldest and among the earliest storage dams in the United States. It is made of cut granite and is located in Windsor, Vermont in Windsor County near the Connecticut River , where it functioned as a source of hydropower and ...
Mill Pond is a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) pond in Duxbury, Massachusetts in the village of Island Creek. The pond is located south of Island Creek Pond. Island Creek runs through the pond. Route 3A runs along the southern shore of the pond. The water quality is impaired due to non-native aquatic plants in the pond.
Merchants Millpond State Park is a North Carolina state park in Gates County, North Carolina, in the United States.Located near Gatesville, in North Carolina's coastal plain, it covers 3,520 acres (14.2 km 2) [2] around a 200-year-old, 700-acre (280 ha) millpond and Lassiter Swamp.
Mill Pond Park also includes 16 Deco Turf tennis courts that operate during the outdoor tennis season, from April through November. During the winter months, 12 courts are covered by a bubble. At the northern side of the park is the historic Power house, constructed in 1923 to provide refrigeration for Bronx Terminal Market.