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The mill used to grind the powder was driven by water from a mill pond formed by a dam across the original stream. The mill was the scene of three explosions, before its eventual closure, in which several workers died (one of whom, according to a rather ghoulish contemporary newspaper report, was blown into five, named, pieces).
King's Mead Mill is a four-storey smock mill on a single-storey brick base. It has a Kentish-style cap winded by a fantail. When working it had four shuttered sails carried on a cast-iron windshaft, driving three pairs of millstones. The current windshaft is a dummy, added when the mill was converted.
Oriental Powder Company was a gunpowder manufacturer with mills located on the Presumpscot River in Gorham and Windham, Maine. The company was one of the four largest suppliers to Union forces through the American Civil War .
Powder mills were originally powered by windmills, water mills or horse mills. Despite later availability of steam engines, the older power sources did not require a fire to generate steam, and avoided the possibility of sparks which might ignite the gunpowder. Some 20th-century powder mills used electric power.
It was replaced by a powder mill, but by 1969, it was being used as a sack mill when it was again destroyed by fire. Harebeating Mill – Harebeating Mill, a post mill located at St Wilfrid's Green just off the top of Hailsham High Street, was previously known as Kenward's Mill. Only the lower floor of the mill remains and this, together with a ...
Manufacturing facilities were dispersed along the 2-mile (3.2 km) power canal to minimize damage during infrequent explosions. King's son-in-law Gershom Moore Peters began working at the powder mill in 1881 and became president of the powder company when King died in 1885. Peters formed the Peters Cartridge Company at Kings Mills in 1887.
Hayward's Mill Post: Demolished 1855 Baldslow The Harrow Mill Smock: 1855: Barcombe: Post: c. 1818 [1] Burnt down c. 1907 [1] Battle: King's Head Mill Post: Demolished 1805 Battle King's Head Mill Caldbec Hill Mill: Smock: 1805: Windmill World: Battle Telham Hill Mill: Post: 1747: Demolished 1962 [2] Battle Watch Oak Mill Netherfield Mill 1813 ...
The Sibley cotton mill was built on the site as a private venture in 1880–82, using bricks from the demolished powder works, and became one of the largest and most successful cotton mills in the region. [5] It manufactured denim until 2006, and the mill's water-driven turbines still generate electricity which is sold to Georgia Power.