Historically, a marble or limestone edge runner mill, running on a limestone bed was used in Great Britain ; however, by the mid 19th century AD this had changed to either an iron shod stone wheel or a cast iron wheel running on an iron bed.

This cotton mill was designed to utilise horse-powered production, however the operators quickly learned that the economic stability of their horse-drawn platform was unstable, and had fiscal issues for years after it was built.

There are no known historical archeological sites within Columbia, as recorded by the MHPC however some sites have been identified by residents including the silica mines, various mill sites, the baseline and the bean factory.

The real development of Fall River's industry, however, would occur along the falling river from which it was named, about a mile north of Durfee's first mill.

Today most of the mill buildings are no longer used to full capacity, however, they do offer valuable incubator space to small businesses.

None, however, have remained as long nor have been as successful as the paper mill.

He spared the cotton mill, however, since there were few such mills in the area to provide cloth for the army, and because the Lenoirs were fellow Masons.

Historically, the commercial base of the city was based almost solely on the paper mill ; however, the diversity of industries has been enhanced considerably in recent years by the influx of several white-collar, high-tech companies including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp Microelectronics, Linear Technology and WaferTech and Underwriters Labs.

From the medieval period, however, fulling often was carried out in a water mill.

Unlike many other mill towns, however, Lowell's manufacturing facitilities were built based on a planned community design.

The final mill on the site was demolished in 1790, however remains of the mill leat are still visible.

During recent decades, however, the number of employees has drastically declined from around 1, 200 in the 1970s, to 200 in 2005 and 120 in 2007. In 2010 there is 135 employees at the paper mill.

Six days after leaving school, however, as he was walking home after a three hour swim in a mill pond, Ben Tillman was attacked by violent pains in his left eye.

Scott succeeded Warren and the mill soon became increasingly successful ; however in 1899 the mill unfortunately burned down.

* In the bed mill, however, the table moves only perpendicular to the spindle's axis, while the spindle itself moves parallel to its own axis.

In 1813, the Macomb family built a dam to power a mill ; however it created a millpond and impeded the river ’ s flow and open navigation.

The original economic driver was coal mining ; however, the forestry industry supplanted it in the early 1960s with the building of the MacMillan Bloedel pulp mill at Harmac in 1958, named after Harvey MacMillan.

A large new mill at Birkacre, Lancashire, was destroyed, however, in the anti-machinery riots in 1779.

There are still references to one of them in the road name " Mill Lane " which runs along the river Ivel however the mill has since been replaced by housing.

The mill industry, however, started to decline in the 1920s.

Crumpsall was rural in character during the early part of the 19th century, however, the necessity to house Manchester's growing population of mill workers saw the area become more urbanised.

The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.

Apart from their second wire mill at nearby Whitebrook, there were no other wire mills before the second half of the 17th century.

The construction of a saw mill is even simpler than a flour or grinding mill, since no gearing is needed, and the rotary saw blade can be driven direct from the water wheel axle, as the example of Sutter's Mill in California shows.

However, there is no evidence that a mill ever existed here.

There was a mill mentioned at Loddon in the Domesday Book and a watermill at Chedgrave in the early 1330s, but there is no evidence for the sites of these mills.

The present mill, Loddon watermill near the town centre which is no longer functioning, was built in the 18th century with the river diverted to run underneath it.

On November 11, the plan was scaled back to $ 1. 34 billion for of farmland, no longer including the mill, citrus processing facilities and other assets.

Many years ago a grist mill was constructed at this point, and the water utilized for a power, but no trace of it remains at this time to be seen.

The governor explained that the closure resulted because is " simply no market for produced at this mill.

Nevada Village was platted in section 2 and a mill was built on Otter Creek but there are no entries on the title record.

Combined with the Great Depression, the shutdown of the mill had a marked impact on the town and left it with no large employer for nearly 20 years.

By 1878, it had one grain mill, no saw or clothing mills, no taverns, and one store.

Although a mill was built in 1765, no other European-American settlers arrived until 1785, after the American Revolutionary War.

However, with the closing of the Thompson mill the train no longer stops in Valley Falls.

As Wright City was no longer just a " mill town ," citizens took the initiative to create an independent, distinctive municipality.

It is quiet, no saloons to mar the pleasure of the inhabitants, has a good church, a good public school building, a sawmill and a good flouring mill, both of which are operated by water power, a manufacturing establishment -- land roller and box factory, and in fact you can get about all the accommodations in Thorp you can get in many towns of much larger population.

A significant geographical feature of Marshall is the mill pond and dam, originally created to power the feed mill, although no longer used for that purpose.

* Muncaster Mill: historic corn mill ( no longer open to the public ), car park ( from Ravenglass ).

) All things being equal, for domestic shipments in areas like North America or Europe where modern road and rail networks are readily available, trucks can be more economical than rail for short-haul deliveries ( a day or less from the mill ), while rail may be more economical for longer shipments.

The mill was reused as an electricity generating plant after it had stopped being used to grind, but once Warwick Castle was fitted with mains electricity in 1940, the mill was no longer required and was dismantled in 1954.

Heavier and longer workpieces lend themselves to placement on the table of a horizontal mill.

Although no longer used to manufacture textiles the mill still derives electricity from the river, using turbine-driven generators.

In 1967 the Council installed a structural steel framework that helps to support the mill's ancient timber frame but means that the mill is static and can no longer turn to face the wind.

After the last textile mill closed in the early 1980s, Almonte no longer had a dominant industry.

Thompson have argued, for people were no longer allowed to remain in their families and communities when they had to travel to a factory or mill, and therefore they grew accustomed to thinking of themselves as isolates.

It is a picture of the American Thread Company mill building, now no longer being used as a mill.

Sarehole, a name no longer used in addresses, was a hamlet which gave its name to a farm ( now built over ) and a mill.

Although no longer working, all the mill machinery is still intact.

It used to be home to Douglas Fraser & Sons ( Mfg ) Ltd producing waterproof and leisure clothing but this firm no longer exists, and the ground where its mill was situated is now the site of modern housing.

In the 1980s the mill was in financial difficulties, which led to the Society forming a cricket XI, the Wilton Millers ' Cricket Team, to raise funds by playing sponsored matches, and in 2011 this was still in existence, although no longer needed for fundraising.