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The mill was fed by the Piedras river and is located at the end of a dirt road, which has its access located between the Camino de Malascarnes and the Camino del Cementerio. The marshes where the mill is located are part of the Piedras river marshes and Flecha del Rompido, a natural area that has been protected since 1989. [4]
A 1780s scribbling mill would be driven by a water wheel. There were 170 scribbling mills around Leeds at that time. Each scribbler would require 15–45 horsepower (11–34 kW) to operate. Modern machines are driven by belting from an electric motor or an overhead shaft via two pulleys. [8]
Delray began a small agricultural community in the late eighteenth century. Its first storekeeper, John McDonald, owned and operated a stave mill and a barrel factory near his residence. [3] The name Delray most likely is a name derived from Spanish meaning "of the king". [4]
The Spanish introduced the arrastra to the New World in the 16th century. The word "arrastra" comes from the Spanish language arrastrar, meaning to drag along the ground. [ 2 ] Arrastras were suitable for use in small or remote mines, since they could be built from local materials and required little investment capital .
In Spanish-speaking countries such as Cuba and Puerto Rico, they are called ingenios. Both words mean engine (from latin ingenium). The word engenho usually only referred to the mill, but it could also describe the area as a whole including land, a mill, the people who farmed and who had a knowledge of sugar production, and a crop of sugar cane ...
The word has its origin in the Latin trapetum that means oil mill. [2] From the Sicilian language trappitu [3] the term, crossing the Mozarab Valencia, with its typical change of termination to «-ig» via the Catalan language (trapig-Gandía, 1536-, trapitz de canyamel-Mallorca, 1466-) [4] has arrived to the other languages of the Iberian peninsula as trapiche. [5]
With the New Laws of 1542, the repartimiento was instated to substitute the encomienda system that had come to be seen as abusive and promoting of unethical behavior. The Spanish Crown aimed to remove control of the indigenous population, now considered subjects of the Crown, from the hands of the encomenderos, who had become a politically influential and wealthy class, with the shift away ...
La Mancha (Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈmantʃa]) is a natural and historical region in the Spanish provinces of Albacete, Cuenca, Ciudad Real and Toledo.It is a fertile plateau (610 m or 2000 ft) that stretches from the mountains of Toledo to the western spurs of the Cuenca hills, bordered to the south by the Sierra Morena and to the north by the Alcarria. [1]