Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Columbus Historic Riverfront Industrial District encompasses one of the most significant assemblages of 19th-century waterpowered mill technology in the American South. A National Historic Landmark District, it includes five historic industrial complexes with elements surviving as far back as the 1830s, located in four separate areas along ...
In July of the following year, he settled on this land with his family and two slave girls, 6 and 10 years old. These settlers constructed a grist mill, which was to open in January 1806. Garrett, however, died that same month. [5] In 1806, the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Road was constructed near Garrett's mill.
Working mills. Alabama. Chandlers Mill, 45ft working water wheel & Gristmill, built 1860 Centre, Alabama. Kymulga Mill, Childersburg. Arkansas. War Eagle Mill, Rogers, built 1832 and still in operation commercially as an undershot grist mill. California. Bale Grist Mill, Napa. Connecticut.
December 21, 1982 [ 1] Austin–Magie Farm and Mill District is a registered historic district near Oxford, Ohio, listed in the National Register on December 21, 1982. It contains 5 contributing buildings. The farm, mill site and millrace are significant as they represent the intensive nineteenth century agricultural and processing activities ...
Bear's Mill is a historic gristmill near the city of Greenville in Darke County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1849, [1] this watermill is the oldest existing industrial building in Darke County. Built by Manning Hart, [2] a local contractor, [3] the mill lies along Greenville Creek in southwestern Adams Township, midway between Greenville and ...
The Harding-Jones Paper Company District is a registered historic district in Excello, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1975. [ 2] A significant, early example of Ohio industry, the mill was owned by the Harding and Jones families for most of its operation. The mill, adjacent to the first lock completed on the ...
Designated VLR. March 19, 2003 [ 2] George Washington's Gristmill was part of the original Mount Vernon plantation, constructed during the lifetime of the United States' first president. The original structure was destroyed about 1850. The Commonwealth of Virginia and the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association have reconstructed the gristmill and ...
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separated from its chaff in preparation for grinding.