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Mill City Museum is located in the ruins of the Washburn "A" Mill next to Mill Ruins Park on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.The museum, an entity of the Minnesota Historical Society that opened in 2003, focuses on the founding and growth of Minneapolis, especially flour milling and the other industries that used hydropower from Saint Anthony Falls.
Millcreek Canyon (also Mill Creek Canyon) [1] (Shoshoni: Tempin-Tekkoappah, “rock trap”) [2] is a canyon in the Wasatch Mountains and part of Millcreek City on the east side of the Salt Lake Valley, Utah. It is a popular recreation area both in the summer and in the winter. [3]
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area The 48-mile (77 km) stretch of the river affords public recreation opportunities and access to historic sites. The national recreation area , a National Park Service unit, was established on August 15, 1978, by President Jimmy Carter .
Mill Creek is a 26-mile (42 km) tributary of the Willamette River that drains a 111-square-mile (290 km 2) area of Marion County in the U.S. state of Oregon. [4] Flowing generally west from its source south of Silver Falls State Park, it passes through the cities of Aumsville, Stayton, Sublimity, and Turner before emptying into the Willamette in Salem.
Mill Bluff State Park is a state park in west-central Wisconsin, United States.It is located in eastern Monroe and western Juneau counties, near the village of Camp Douglas.A unit of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, the park protects several prominent sandstone bluffs 80 feet (24 m) to 200 feet (61 m) high that formed as sea stacks 12,000 years ago in Glacial Lake Wisconsin.
The floating platform is anchored at the most intense point in the current, to the bridge piers for easy access to the mill, or to the shore. Floating allows the mill to operate with the same power despite changing water levels. The efficiency of the mill can at best match a standard undershot mill. Ship mills could potentially run full-time ...
A series of water- and wind-powered mills were soon built in the area. Eventually a steam-powered mill replaced the older technology. The state bought the area in 1937 and rebuilt the steam engine in 1958. Every year as part of the park's special events and interpretive programs, the old mill is run as it had been years ago. [2]
McConnells Mill State Park is a 2,546 acres (1,030 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Perry and Slippery Rock Townships, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park features a deep scenic gorge with the restored watermill and a covered bridge at the bottom, accessible by a roadway that winds between large, room-sized boulders on the hillside.