The powder mills remained in operation until 1927 when they were closed.

Those who remained behind when the big mills left were forced to eke out a living trying to grow a few crops on the rocky, barren, eroded hills.

Prior to the mid-20th century, Monroe County remained largely agrarian and was well known for its numerous paper mills — the first of which was founded in 1834.

The mills sprang up around the Willimantic River in the borough of Willimantic, while Windham remained a farming community.

The original village of Gamesley consisted of rows of cottages inhabited by workers at the local textile mills, and it remained largely undeveloped until the 1960s, when it underwent considerable change.

During the colonial period, the area remained rural with orchards, important grain mills and abundant water from its three main rivers of Piedad, Morales and Xola.

They and their successor companies remained in control until the mills closed in 1968.

During the century most textile manufacture moved to newer mills in the surrounding towns while Manchester remained the centre of trading in cotton goods both for the home and foreign markets but pollution from burning coal and gas remained a considerable nuisance.

By 1872 only 27 remained, Half of the remaining mills closed between 1921 and 1939 and there is only 1 working mill in the town today.

However, consumption of black tea within India remained low until an aggressive promotional campaign by the ( British-owned ) Indian Tea Association in the early 20th century, which encouraged factories, mines, and textile mills to provide tea breaks for their workers.

The city developed a sizable manufacturing sector based on textile mills and other light industry from the 1950s on, though the public sector remained the largest employer.

Some minor cultivation continued, while all evidence of sugarcane plantations is still going on in Haft Teppe area in north of Ahvaz, although ruins of sugarcane mills from the medieval era remained in existence.

Throughout the 20th century, the privately owned mills in the Mackay district closed one by one until only four remained – Marian, Racecourse, Farleigh and Pleystowe.

In the 19th century, Gif remained very agricultural ( in particular, operating mills ).

However, the higher temperatures needed to melt the slag recovered from the primary melt required a water powered furnace and, since slag mills tended to be placed next to the cupolas, most cupolas remained in riverside sites.

The absence of coal however meant that during the Industrial Revolution Dorset was unable to compete with the large mechanised mills of Lancashire and so remained largely rural.

Textile mills and coal mines remained the biggest employers of the local population until the first half of the 20th century.

The mills, however, remained heavily dependent on young female workers – in 1838, over 92 % of his workforce was female.

Opposite the angle ring stood the British rolling mills, which opened in the 19th century and remained in use until 2005, by which time it was part of Brymill.

With the end of water power for the mills, and the introduction of road transport, the parcel traffic disappeared, but minerals remained important until the mid-20th century.

In 1863 the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad ( I & C ) acquired the right to build on the old towpath, although many portions of the canal remained open as a source of water power for mills like the one still operating in Metamora, Indiana.

In the 1960s and 1970s, mills were closing in Greater Manchester at a rate of almost one a week, and by the 1980s only specialised textile production remained, although clothing manufacture and the wholesale trade continue to form a strong part of Manchester's economy.

Trade in raw cotton moving north to New England textile mills, and finished goods moving south from New England factories remained strong until the Great Depression.

The two mills were granted to John Spilman ( later Sir John Spilman ) by the Crown in 1581.

His family was one of the wealthiest families in Mexico: his grandfather had founded the Compañía Industrial de Parras, which was initially involved in vineyards, cotton, and textiles, and later expanded into mining, cotton mills, ranching, banking, coal, rubber, and foundries in the later part of the nineteenth century.

He succeeded in incorporating the latest Dutch innovations of the day into the family mills.

The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles.

During 19th century foreign industries start settling in Salerno: in 1830 a first textile mill was established by the Swiss enterpreneur Züblin Vonwiller, followed by Schlaepfer-Wenner's textile mills and dye factories ; the Wenner family settled permanently in Salerno

In 1771, the Ellicott family moved to the area and built mills along the Patapsco River.

The timber cutters soon followed, including the Lahey family who owned one of Queensland's largest timber mills at the time.

Mills during the late 18th Century quickly began to proliferate in the village along the Shunock River to such an extent that the locale took the name of “ Milltown ,” and the Avery family and other landowners began to sell lots along what is now the western end of Main Street to house businesses and dwellings for workers in the mills.

Between 1777 and 1783, Arkwright and his family built mills at Bakewell, Cressbrook, Rocester, and Wirksworth, spread across Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

The Strutt family continued to invest, fuelled by the profits of their mills in Milford and Belper.

The mills run by the Strutt family also suffered from a lack of modernisation ; although they were at the forefront of fireproofing technology at the start of the 19th century, as the machines the mills used got bigger and more powerful, the Strutts persevered with child labour where adults would have been more adept at using the machinery.

Curtis died in 1843 and both mills stood idle until John Bower arrived in 1846, with his family, after having visited the area the year before.

A 1972 " Bedford Landmark Tour " says, " Site of the Wilson mills dating from about 1685 ; mills, dam, and pond passed from the Wilson family about 1770 to Oliver Bacon, then bought by Jonas Gleason ( 1782 ) and by Simeon Blodgett ( 1816 ); through the years, the site was operated as a grist mill, a saw mill, and later a cider mill.

By 1870, the Hopkins family had switched from brick manufacturing to lumbermen, primarily putting logs in the Manistee rivers, and floating them to the mills for sale.

Financial difficulties followed by the economic Panic of 1893, family conflict, and labor disputes caused the mills to fall into receivership in the early 1900s.

In the post-World War II period, Mount Holly saw a large number of blue collar, family wage jobs disappear as the community's traditional employers, mills and dye factories, were shut down.

The Holt family subsequently built scores of mills across the state, as well as becoming involved in banking, railroads, politics and other ventures.

The Holt family was instrumental in building several different textile mills in Burlington and the surrounding towns.

The Mendenhall family, who owned and operated the area's first grist and lumber mills, also owned much of the town's original land.

The community was named for the Riegel family, as early landowners ; they established paper mills across the river in New Jersey.

The Butter family also had paper mills in the area, and Frederick Bicking from Winterburg, Germany, was the patriarch of the Bicking paper families.

Also, Umberger's Mill is a point of interest-it is one of the last family owned mills in the U. S.

The company, which is owned by a third generation of the Schultz family, operates two mills, the original mill in Jersey Shore and a second mill downstream in Montoursville.

The mills were often family businesses and continued manufacturing after the wool crisis in 1950 – 51, which saw Australian sheep farmers begin to charge higher prices.