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Kesler Manufacturing Co.–Cannon Mills Co. Plant No. 7 Historic District is a national historic district located at Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 109 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure consisting of a complex of industrial buildings and mill dwellings.
Kettner's Townhouse was founded in 1867 by Auguste Kettner, a German chef who served Napoleon III.It is the first restaurant to serve French food in London.
Ketner was born in Rimertown, North Carolina, on September 20, 1920, to parents George Robert Ketner and Effie Yost Ketner. [1] [2] [3] Ketner grew up selling newspapers and almanacs, all while learning what he called "street smarts". [3] At a young age, Ketner had an apparent aptitude for arithmetic, claiming he could "out add any adding machine."
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marion County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and ...
Sir Robert Peel, a mill owner turned reformer, promoted the 1802 Health and Morals of Apprentices Act, which was intended to prevent pauper children from working more than 12 hours a day in mills. Children had started in the mills at around the age of four, working as mule scavengers under the working machinery until they were eight, they ...
Most of the steel produced has been by the growing number of mini-mills, also called specialty mills, which in 2014 numbered 113. In 1981, mini-mills produced an estimated 15% of US steel. [13] Since 2002, steel produced by electric arc furnace, the process used by the mini-mills, has produced more than half the steel made in the US.
The plant included a planing mill with the capacity of turning out a million feet (2,360,000 cubic meters) of flooring, ceiling, siding and trim pieces a year. Six large kilns dried lumber for use in the planing mill. 3 miles (4.8 km) of lumber piles, some 40 feet (12 m) high, were stacked on the ten, 1,300 feet (400 m) long lumber docks.
Revere purchased a mill in Canton, Massachusetts, for $6,000 in late 1800 [4] to provide a dedicated copper producing facility. The mill was originally an ironworks, but Revere used a loan from the Department of the Navy to convert it into a copper foundry, completing America's first copper rolling mill. The most important pieces of equipment ...