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It includes buildings associated with eight textile mill complexes, mill village housing, and seven commercial buildings. Notable contributing resources include the Smith River Dam and Spray Power canal, Morehead Cotton Mill complex, "Superintendent's" House (c. 1810), Imperial Bank and Trust Company (1912), Leaksville Cotton Mills complex ...
John J. Shuford and Avery M. Powell built Long Island Mill [2] in the early 1850s. Brothers Columbus and Wilfred Turner bought the mill in 1881. It was located "on a mile-long stretch of island in one of the river's wider spots". [5] Columbus Turner built a house nearby which he called Mont Beaux, which the mill workers pronounced Monbo.
Suffolk County, V. 2, Double Page Plate No. 11 (Map bounded by Long Island Sound, South Hold Bay, Little Peconic Bay, Cutchogue) NYPL2055499. The Peconic Gristmill, also known as the Goldsmith's Inlet Mill, was a prominent mill in the area. It was built in 1839 as a tidal mill, using the power of the tides to turn the millstones that ground ...
The mill initially produced cotton yarn, but later made printed cloth, carpet, and twine. At its height the area included 25 mill worker houses as well as the waterworks, wood frame mill structure, and four story factory. [3] The mill was in operation until at least 1905, [3] but now only the foundational remnants of the mill and the waterworks ...
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The state's history has long been tied to its location near the ocean: Rhode Island was home to the first water-powered textile mill in the country in 1790 and built the first ocean wind farm in ...
Old Mill, built as a steam-powered mill in Ancoats in 1798, is the oldest surviving cotton mill in Manchester. Before 1780, only water power was available to drive large mills, [ 44 ] but they were dependent on a constant flow of water and built in rural locations, causing problems of labour supply, transportation of materials and access to ...
Aug. 11—LUKE — The town of Luke has been notified that a company will clear up to 55 acres at the former site of Verso Corp.'s Luke paper mill. Verso closed the plant in 2019, resulting in a ...