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Locke's Mill, Berryville, Virginia, Colonial-era grist mill on the Shenandoah River. Grinding a variety of grains including certified organic, powered by water wheel. McCormick Mill, Raphine, Virginia, grist mill located on the Cyrus McCormick Farm. Causey's Mill, Causey Mill Park, Newport News; George Washington's Gristmill, Mount Vernon
Later designs incorporated horizontal steel or cast iron turbines, which were sometimes refitted into the old wheel mills. In most wheel-driven mills, a large gear-wheel called the pit wheel is mounted on the same axle as the water wheel and this drives a smaller gear-wheel, the wallower, on a main driveshaft running vertically from the bottom ...
Water wheels were used to power sawmills, grist mills and for other purposes during development of the United States. The 40 feet (12 m) diameter water wheel at McCoy, Colorado , built in 1922, is a surviving one out of many which lifted water for irrigation out of the Colorado River .
Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) Interior of the Lyme Regis watermill, UK (14th century). A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering.
The contributing structure consists of the mill pond, dam, head race, and tail race. The Jervis Gordon Grist Mill consists of the original two-story structure that was built in 1882, with a shed addition that was erected in 1904, a rear enclosure covering the water wheel, and a machine shop addition that dates roughly to 1908. The mill includes ...
The mill was powered by a large water wheel. To ensure a steady power supply, water was diverted from Piney Branch into Dogue Run Creek above the mill's headrace. The additional waterflow significantly increased the mill's production capacity. In 1791, Washington automated his mill using technology developed and patented by Oliver Evans of ...
Gully Mill is a historic grist mill located on the Cape Fear River near Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina.The mill was built about 1900, and consists of one and two story sections, a large water wheel operated by water flowing through a partially underground flume, and an open rear shed.
Francis Grist Mill is a historic grist mill located at Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. It was built in 1887, and is a 1 1/2-story, heavy timber frame mill building sheathed in board-and-batten siding. It has an overshot water wheel and (restored) wheel mechanisms, gears and pulleys underneath the main floor.