Teaming up with Samuel Slater, Moses Brown helped to create the second cotton mill in America, a water-powered textile mill.

The railroads helped make Winchester a transportation, commercial, and educational center, and gave rise to small service communities such as Hedges Station, six miles east of Winchester, and Ford, a once-prosperous mill town on the Kentucky River.

To attract newcomers to the town, he established mail service and helped erect the first saw mill in the county.

The settlement began to grow just after the turn of the century with the Miller-Morris Canal, one of the first large rice irrigation systems, which helped establish the rice industry in the area, followed in 1900 by the opening of the Eureka rice mill at Estherwood.

Leicester's Pliny Earle helped Samuel Slater build the first American mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, by building the first carding machine.

He helped fund a paper mill that was built just outside Williamsburg in 1903.

Mr. Schwab also helped make the borough larger by building houses for some of the mill workers.

During World War I he helped to build a silver mill in Calico.

Water power sites around the Carrabassett River helped North Anson develop into a small mill town.

Up to 1837, Luther helped his father as a merchant and miller, and in that same year, enlarged the grist mill by adding steam power and two more run of stones.

He helped develop rail-related industries in Colorado, such as a large steel mill near Pueblo.

A textile mill and a sawmill at the same location helped to provide the impetus for the development of a settlement at Wakefield.

The grant money has helped restore the mill to working order and open it to the public for a wide-ranging audience.

The 1890-91 strike at the mill was important in the establishment of the Independent Labour Party which later helped found the modern-day Labour Party.

In 1859, the family settled in Cache Valley, where Moses helped Hezekiah locate canal and mill sites.

He likely had moved to the area with his family some years before the American Revolution, from Cecil County, Maryland, where he had helped to run the family water mill at Bohemia Manor.

The river helped power machinery in the mill.

Rose was a baker and publican as well as a farmer, building a mill on his property and a couple of large dams which helped him and his neighbours survive the drought of 1829.

He helped build a spice-and-coffee mill for a man named William H. Bovee.

In 1881, he helped establish Toronto Paper Manufacturing Company Limited and set up a mill at Cornwall, Ontario.

It helped drive the paper mill industry of the area, which he also helped finance.

It built a logging railroad to bring logs to the mill at Fredalba.

The trees along the banks of the bay were logged first and then oxen and horses were used to bring more distant logs to the mill.

The local zamindar ( landlord ) Thakur Harnam Singh ( Murad ) partners with some city business men to construct a mill on his large parcel of land, which in return would profit them and bring prosperity to the village.

Early American activity in the region included Fort William on present day Sauvie Island, the establishment of the Methodist Mission in the Willamette Valley and the Whitman Mission east of the Cascades, a saw mill in the Willamette Valley partly owned by Ewing Young, a grist mill also in the valley built in 1834, the Willamette Cattle Company organized in 1837 to bring over 600 head of cattle to the Willamette Valley, as well as ongoing Maritime Fur Trade vessels.

The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind.

When the freeze was just beginning, Bartlett would bring up several teams, hitch them to a bunch of stumps and drag through the canal to break the ice so boats could get lumber to his mill.

A standard gauge logging railroad was also constructed to bring logs to the mill.

Thorn built the road to bring redwood logs out of the forest and to his mill, and then over the mountain into Oakland via the Temescal Creek route on the northwest edge of Montclair Village.

A railroad extended upriver to bring logs to the mill.

The recruits are ordered to bring the workers to safety in an underground bomb shelter, while preventing the escape of a commanding officer named Zhidkov and saving the mill from destruction.

On the pediment of the Hierapolis mill, a waterwheel fed by a mill race is shown transmitting power through a gear train to two frame saws, which cut rectangular blocks by way of some kind of connecting rods and, through mechanical necessity, cranks.

On one evening when she is coming home from the mill, Scarlett is accosted by two men who attempt to rob her, but she escapes with the help of Big Sam, the former negro foreman from Tara.

Using two sets of rollers that travelled at different speeds, it was later used in the first cotton spinning mill.

The construction of a controversial pulp paper mill in 2007, on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River, caused protests in Argentina over fears that it would pollute the environment and lead to diplomatic tensions between the two countries.

" My father has been dead about a year ; my mother is living and has ten children, five lads and five lasses ; the oldest is about thirty, the youngest is four ; three lasses go to mill ; all the lads are colliers, two getters and three hurriers ; one lives at home and does nothing ; mother does nought but look after home.

Prior to the construction of a dam at the resurgence to feed water to the paper mill downstream, two more chambers ( the Fourth and Fifth ) were accessible.

Like several other people working at the mill, these two workers were discharged veterans of the Mormon Battalion.

This included a house, two barns, a horse drawn mill, a bakehouse, a poultry house, a dairy and a smokehouse.

The ghost towns in British Columbia were predominantly mining towns and prospecting camps as well as canneries and, in one or two cases, large smelter and pulp mill towns.

Under Abbasid rule, the legend goes, the secret of papermaking was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the Battle of Talas in 751, which led to the first paper mill in the Islamic world being founded in Samarkand.

# PCB milling uses a two or three-axis mechanical milling system to mill away the copper foil from the substrate.

Others among the 19 grade II listed buildings in Bowlish include Coombe House, which was built c. 1820 ; 14, 15 and 16 Combe Lane, which were built around 1700 with 18th-century alterations ; 26 to 29 Combe Lane, which is a former mill built around 1700 and enlarged in 1850 ; and 30 and 31 Combe Lane, which are two weaver's cottages dating to about 1850.

There are two aqueducts which join just north of the mill complex, and a sluice which enabled the operators to control the water supply to the complex.

The mill consisted of 16 waterwheels in two separate rows built into a steep hillside.

He made an offer of a two year lease to Charles Mears to operate the mill in exchange for development of the channel.

It replaced a structure built in 1749, but that was not the first mill at Hoxne, since a mill is shown on Kirby's map of Suffolk, dated 1736, and two mills are mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, although this probably meant that there were two sets of stones.

Initially it had six sets of stones and two wheels, powered by a fall in the river, but in 1849, Henry Warne moved his business from Hoxne mill to Syleham, and used the mill to power looms on which a coarse cloth made from linen and cotton called drabbet was woven.

Woodbridge has a tide mill in working order, one of only two in the UK and among the earliest.

These residents supported a saw mill, a turpentine still, a syrup factory, a black smith, a newspaper, a lawyer, two carpenters, and three general stores.