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According to de Barry, the oldest circular stone millstone was unearthed in the ruins of the town of Olynthus: it was the millstone of an oil mill, not a flour mill. Historians Marie-Claire Amouretti and Georges Comet [ 17 ] point out that these millstones pre-date the earliest known examples of circular grain mills.
With major renovation and mechanization in the 1920s, the Belmont Hosiery Co. was famous for its full-fashioned hosiery, distributed worldwide. The last stocking was knit in 1970, after over a century of local manufacturing in Belmont." [16] "Mostly abandoned in the 1970s, the mill suffered a devastating 1992 fire.
Bellemont Mill Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Bellemont, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 24 contributing buildings built between 1879 and 1880 in Bellemont. The district includes the three-story brick Bellemont Cotton Hill and 23 associated one and two-story frame mill houses. [2]
Belmont is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States along former State Route 82. [2] The town is a historic district listed in the National Register of Historic Places . It is Nevada Historical Marker number 138.
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Stone was quarried at several sites including Anglezarke and used for building farmhouses, barns, mills and stone boundary walls. There were small coal mines on Winter Hill and Quarlton. Belmont was the site of a bleaching and dyeing works, powered by water from Eagley Brook which powered mills along its valley. A reservoir was constructed ...
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Belmont Historic District is a national historic district located at Belmont, Gaston County, North Carolina. It encompasses 264 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in the central business district and adjacent residential areas of Belmont.