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Verla at Jaala, Kouvola, Finland, is a well-preserved 19th-century mill village.Situated along the northern Kymi River, the mill, nearby power plants, and residential houses were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996 due to its testimony to the lumber industry in the 19th century and the lives of the industrial workers of that time.
Verla Groundwood and Board Mill: Kouvola , Kymenlaakso: 1996 751; iv (cultural) The mill and the surrounding residential area represent a type of small-scale rural industrial settlement common in the 19th and early 20th centuries, associated with pulp, paper, and board production. These types of settlements flourished in northern Europe and ...
Edward Dippel, Verla paper mill, Jaala (1893) The eclectic mixtures of neo-Gothic, neo-Romanesque, neo-Classical and neo-Renaissance architecture continued even during the beginning of the 20th century, with architects using different styles for different projects or even combining elements in the same work.
National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers (F) Cultural: 180 Honduras: Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve: Natural: 196 Italy: Historic Centre of Florence: Cultural: 174 Libya: Archaeological Site of Cyrene: Cultural: 190: Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna (F) Cultural: 183: Archaeological Site of Sabratha: Cultural: 184 Seychelles ...
A history of technology: vol 4: The Industrial Revolution c 1750–c 1860 (1960) ch 4, and vol 5: The Late Nineteenth Century, c 1850–c 1900, ch 3; online at ACLS e-books Archived 2006-11-30 at the Wayback Machine; Stoddard, Brooke C. Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal that Made America (2015) short, global popular history excerpt
In France, UPM closed Stracel paper mill in 2013 and Docelles paper mill in 2014. Madison paper mill in the USA was closed in 2016.The Schwedt paper mill in Germany was sold in 2017. Specialty paper production expanded to China and Germany in 2015 and 2019, respectively. Kaipola paper mill in Finland was closed in 2020.
In 1839, Stark Mill No. 1, an Amoskeag affiliate with 8,000 spindles, was completed, together with six blocks of boarding houses for employees. Throughout the company's history, its engineering department designed and built all mill facilities, whether for use by Amoskeag or others, giving the complex a unity of design.
Oaks explosion – A colliery in South Yorkshire suffered a series of explosions, causing one of the worst mining disasters in British history. 9 July 1872 United Kingdom: Glasgow, Scotland: 18 16+ Tradeston Flour Mills explosion – A mill owned by Matthew Muir & Sons company suffered a dust explosion. 13 May 1873 Canada: Westville, Nova ...