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The new saw mills which sprang up in the fjords changed this.
As lumber mills sprang up, boat building followed.
During the 19th century a number of mills sprang up along Crum Creek ( the western border ) and Darby Creek ( in the northeast corner of the Township ).
Many of these small community schools sprang up near saw mills and other operations.
Soon after the railroad's arrival, several small mills sprang up in the vicinity.
Soon large mills and factories sprang up at the falls on the rivers which traverse the town.
In the 19th century mills and factories sprang up in Glenham and Matteawan brought an influx of skilled weavers from the British Isles.
Textile mills and coal mines sprang up across the whole country and peasants were taken from the fields to work down the mines, or into the " Dark, Satanic Mills ", the chimneys of which blacked the sky over Lancashire and West Yorkshire.
The lumber boom town of Laneville soon sprang up around it with a population that peaked at over 300 people. Shay locomotives climbed the temporary railroads into the mountains and backcountry logging camps sprang up throughout the Sods, clearing away the virgin forest to feed the hungry mills.
In the late 19th century steam mills sprang up in Bombay, Ahmedabad and Khandesh.
A number of mills sprang up during the industrial revolution from the 1760s onwards-not without the usual Luddite unrest.
Other mills in the area soon sprang up.

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Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
They kept their machines up to date, and had many factories and mills.
Agricultural improvement began in the centuries before the Industrial revolution got going and it may have played a part in freeing up labour from the land to work in the new industrial mills of the 18th century.
Children employed as mule scavenger by cotton mills would crawl under machinery to pick up cotton, working 14 hours a day, six days a week.
He also built textile looms, copying from one nearby, so that Ford could set up mills on the creek.
The water fell and generated direct current electricity, which ran the machinery of local mills and lit up some of the village streets.
They write that millions of dogs spend their lives chained outside in all weather conditions or locked up in chain-link pens and wire cages in puppy mills, and that even in good homes animals are often not well cared for.
There are substantial masonry remains of the water channels and foundations of the individual mills, together with a staircase rising up the hill upon which the mills are built.
Originally, circular saws in mills had smaller blades and were used to resaw lumber after it passed through an " up and down " ( muley or sash ) saw leaving both vertical and circular saw marks on different sides of the same piece.
After 1813 or 1822 saw mills use large circular saws, up to nine feet ( 2. 97 m ) in diameter.
When provisions are high, the people have so much to pay for them that they have little or nothing left to buy clothes with ; and when they have little to buy clothes with, there are few clothes sold ; and when there are few clothes sold, there are too many to sell, they are very cheap ; and when they are very cheap, there cannot be much paid for making them: and that, consequently, the manufacturing working man's wages are reduced, the mills are shut up, business is ruined, and general distress is spread through the country.
Major General Sheridan raided up the Valley from Winchester, where his forces destroyed " 2, 000 barns filled with grain and implements, not to mention other outbuildings, 70 mills filled with wheat and flour " and " numerous head of livestock ," to lessen the area's ability to supply the Confederates.
In the Midwest, neighborhoods were built on high wages from manufacturing union jobs ; these in-demand jobs dried up during the decline of industry and the ensuing downsizing at steel mills, auto plants, and other factories starting in the early 1970s.
In 1772 three mills blew up, shattering glass and buildings in the neighbourhood.
A large amount of paper and textiles were produced, and mills sprung up all along the Kennebec river.
In addition, textile mills began springing up along the river, bringing industry to an area reliant upon agriculture.
As Moline grew around its mills and factories, and as its neighbor to the west, Rock Island, continued to grow at a similar pace, the neighboring towns ran up against one another's borders relatively quickly.
By the late 19th century and early 20th century, musical instrument factories, Miles Medical Company, and numerous mills set up shop and became the base of the economy.
His sons, Robert Dale and William, gave up their shares of the New Lanark mills in exchange for shares in New Harmony.
Besides the mills, lumber covering several acres went up in smoke.
During the 19th-century, the Little Androscoggin River provided water power to operate mills in South Paris, and the village grew up around them.

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Since the middle of the 1820s, numerous works comprising coke blast furnaces as well as puddling and rolling mills were built in the coal mining areas around Liège and Charleroi.
In Québec, Val-Jalbert is a well-known tourist ghost town ; founded in 1901 around a mechanical pulp mill which became obsolete when paper mills began to break down wood fibre by chemical means, it was abandoned when the mill closed in 1927 and re-opened as a park in 1960.
In 1877 the city was the site of as many as 21 textile mills employing around 10 thousand workers ; in comparison with the four thousand employed in Turin's textile industry, Salerno was sometimes referred to as the " Manchester of the two Sicilies ".
Madison County was one of the largest cotton-producing counties in the state, and textile mills operated around the county.
By around 1820, hundreds of water-powered mills were producing textiles, lumber, shingles and iron in automated processes here.
Industries such as distilleries and mills thrived throughout the county until 1820, when they began to be concentrated around Winchester.
Communities formed around grist mills newly formed churches such as Haralson Mill, Costleys Mill, Dial Mill, Zacharys Mill, McElroys Mill, Union Grove Baptist Church, Ebenezer Methodist Church, Philadelphia Methodist Church, Salem Baptist Church, Smyrna Presbyterian Church, Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Bethel Christian Church, Honey Creek Baptist Church, Other communities included Magnet and Zingara.
By 2005, hosiery mill employment in Fort Payne had declined to around 5, 500, and several mills had closed.
Thus, new settlements were established by mill owners around the mills – sometimes developing a pre-existing community – with their own amenities such as schools, chapels, and markets.
He deeded land to the railroad, surveyed business lots including hotels, mills, and blacksmith shops around the town where the railroad ran by the 1847 train depot.
Its lumber mills sent products around the world.
Today, Bogalusa's economy revolves around the lumber and paper mills, as well as agriculture.
The village of South Thomaston grew around the mills, which would include three granite polishing machines to process stone cut from the town's numerous quarries.
The village formed in the early 1800s around textile and paper mills.
The town grew as a combination of agriculture in the area around the town center, and mills along the rivers in town.
The town of Rowe grew around mills on the river, but also had other industries, including sulfur, talc and soapstone mining.
Three villages developed around mills at the cascades and the easy grades along the valley were utilized for a railroad route across the Berkshires ' 2000 feet ( 600 m ) of relief.
The town grew primarily around the Manhan River, both through its phase as a strictly agricultural community and later, through the industrial revolution, when mills and factories were first built in Easthampton, mainly in connection with textile manufacturing and its offshoots.
) Hanover's early industry revolved around farming, small mills and a shipbuilding area along the North River.
As lumber camps sprung up around saw mills, more settlers arrived.
The settlement formed around the lumber and flour mills of J. A.
The settlement around the mills was named for Abbott.

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