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Historic Mill Springs in Monticello, Kentucky, is the site of the largest overshot water wheel in the world and it is still in operation. Mill Springs was the site of one of the most intense battles of the Civil War, January 17, 1862.
Saxtead Green, Suffolk, an 18th century windmill.
It's a post mill with a three storey roundhouse. The mill has four Patent sails carried on a cast iron windshaft and is winded by a fantail. The mill has two pairs of millstones in the breast. All the machinery is of cast iron except the Brake Wheel, which is of oak.
In 1903, E.B. Mabry began construction on the now famous and frequently photographed Mabry Mill, located on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the southern part of Virginia. Construction of the mill was completed in 1910, but it functioned as a blacksmith and wheelright shop, as well as a gristmill, while still being built.
I visited the mill on a very cold morning in March. The temperature was around 18º F during my visit, extremely windy, and icicles had formed on the race of the mill the night before. I was very lucky to be there to capture the mill in this state.
On EXPLORE - thank you
A small unique Mill, being only one of two combined Wind & Water Mills in Norfolk. The Windmill was built around 1821, although the water mill was operating earlier & was built around 1780.
The Pump House contains a separate waterwheel; this pumped water to Clermont Hall, a mile away.
The Mill ceased working by wind power in 1916 but continued with water & oil power until 1952.
After it fell into disrepair, Norfolk Windmills Trust took over the lease of the Mill in 1981 & a long term programme of repairs were embarked upon.
31.8.2024.
The Bradford area of West Yorkshire was a hotbed of textile mills in the C19th - it's very different now.
With a bit of imagination, this view from Salts Mill in Saltaire, gives an impression of what it might have looked like.
This old water driven mill was originally built as a textile mill in !873, later a cotton gin and is now a corn and wheat mill and museum. This beautiful setting is at Belvedere, Tn. southeast of Nashville, Tn.
Dereham Mill
My first experiment with a low level tripod and a wide angle lens to incorporate more foreground elements.
Buttrum's Mill was built in 1836 by John Whitmore, the Wickham Market millwright, replacing an earlier post mill. The mill was run for many years by the Trott family, for whom it was built, and later by the Buttrum family.[2]
It worked by wind until 11 October 1928. The shutters were removed from the sails in 1934 and stored in the mill. The mill was bought at auction in 1937 by Mr Kenney, a mill enthusiast. The fantail was blown off in the 1940s, damaging the cap.[2] A lease on the mill was granted to East Suffolk County Council in 1950. The council aimed to preserve an example of each main type of windmill.[3] The derelict mill was restored from 1952 by Thomas Smithdale and Sons, the Acle, Norfolk millwrights for East Suffolk County Council.[4] The work, costing £4,000 was completed in 1954. It was part funded by the Pilgrim Trust.[3] The wrought iron gallery round the cap was replaced with a wooden one. A new cap and fantail was built.[2] The fantail was damaged in a gale in December 1966 and in 1973 a new stock and sail were fitted.[3] In the late 1970s, further restoration work was carried out by Millwrights International Ltd. A new cap was craned onto the mill in 1982 and new sails were fitted in 1984.[2]
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For an explanation of the various pieces of machinery, see Mill machinery.
Buttrum's Mill is a six storey tower mill with an ogee cap with a gallery.[4] The tower is 20 feet 6 inches (6.25 m) diameter internally at the base and 11 feet (3.35 m) diameter at curb level. It is 48 feet (14.63 m) high to the curb.[3] The brickwork is 23 inches (580 mm) thick at the base. The mill stands 61 feet (18.59 m) to the finial, the tallest surviving mill in Suffolk.[2] The cap is winded by a six bladed fantail.[3] The four Patent sails of 70 feet (21.34 m) span are carried on a cast iron windshaft as is the cast iron brake wheel with wooden cogs. This drives a cast iron wallower carried on the cast iron upright shaft. The wallower can be disengaged from the brake wheel to allow the mill to be driven by auxiliary power. Lower down the upright shaft a cast iron crown wheel drives auxiliary machinery via layshafts. The cast iron great spur wheel drives four pairs of 4 feet (1.22 m) diameter overdrift millstones.[2] Two of the four pairs of millstones are controlled by a single governor. The mill is unusual in having a speaking tube connecting the floors.[3] One of the pairs of sails is shorter than the other pair.[
Robert Owen (1771 – 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. He is known among other things for efforts to improve his factory's working conditions, promoting experimental socialistic communities, and proposing a more collective approach to child rearing, including government control of education
He became wealthy in the early 1800s as an investor and eventual manager of the textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland,now restored as a museum and heritage centre,
( thanks to RBH for mill owner photo and Bing for background photo )
This is a wider view of Mabry Mill in Virginia. Again, the lighting was awful even between 5-6 pm. The color shots I took, even the HDR did nothing for me. But in infrared, the lighting was perfect. I even managed to get the nasty goose in the shot. He did come to chase me after I took this photo.
Built by Ted Sawle, Sr. in 1850, Hyde's Mill is located on Mill Creek in rural Ridgeway, WI. Thanks fo fellow Flickrite, Jim Sisko (Siskokid) for posting a photo of this mill that sparked my interest to hunt it down. (In case you're interested, this mill and the historic house down the street are for sale!)
The mill, which is mentioned in the Domesday book, has had many incarnations. As a linen mill it processed flax and supplied canvas to the Royal Navy but when industry declined it was developed into a foundry with a blast furnace and was one of the first places to make the new threshing machines in the West of England. It went on to build boilers, steam lorries and gas engines as well as gaining a reputation as a builder of water wheels. During the First World War Mills Bombs, better know as the hand grenade, were produced here in vast quantities. After the Gasper dam burst upriver in the summer of 1917, much of the machinery was washed from the factory and it took a number of years for industry to restart on the site. When it did return in 1933 the factory entered its final phase as a dried milk processing plant and this continued up until its closure in 1998. It is now derelict with many of the oldest buildings in a state of collapse.
Vernonia Mill interior, Vernonia, Oregon. August 2008.
Another shot I took to test the light and my camera settings. I really can't express how magical this place felt.
From the Mill of Kintail, of course. I cropped into portrait mode from a wider landscape shot. Happy Friday, everybody.
nrhp # 83002216- Juniata Woolen Mill and Newry Manor, also known as Lutz Mansion and Woolen Mill, Lux Vista, Lutz Mill, and Lutz Factory, is a historic woolen mill building and manor house located at Snake Spring Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The site includes a small German colonial manor house dated to 1803 with a large brick addition dated to 1858 and an attached log house, and a stone woolen mill dated to 1805. The original 1803 manor house is a 2 1/2-story, 3-bay wide building. Attached to it is the 2 1/2-story, late-federal style brick addition, with the early 19th century, 2-story log house attached to it. The log house was reconstructed in 1950. The woolen mill is 2 1/2-stories with four working levels. The mill was in operation from 1808 for over a century.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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The new owners intended to restore the historic hotel, but found that the structure was unsalvageable. They demolished it in late 1968 (but saved the ironwork and cornices to reinstall)[6] and built a 217-room replica with a largely faithful facade, only increased from five to seven stories. A three-story, brick building to the south (111 Meeting Street) was also razed to make way for a side entrance to the new hotel and a garden area.
The original 79-foot iron balcony across the front was replaced with a 75-foot version, and some changes were made to the window cornices (the cornices on the first two floors were cast from originals, but upper floors received different cornices that the original).
Cornell Mill in Stanbridge East, Qc
Rivière aux Brochets / Pike River
1830
ND10+ND4 at long exposure
nrhp # 16000527- The Brightwells Mill Complex historic 19th-century mill complex at 684 Brightwells Mill Road in Madison Heights, Amherst County, Virginia. It includes a reconstructed 1826 wood-frame mill, dam, miller's house, a number of outbuildings, and a small cemetery. The dam and mill both date to 1942, when a flash flood destroyed 19th-century structures. The mill was rebuilt using materials salvaged from the 1826 mill, while the dam was rebuilt in concrete. The mill was used to process the grain of local farmers until 1965.[2]
The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
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A visit to Lancaster should always include a visit to Rock Mill. Midday sun was glaring, and not a cloud in the sky made for some challenging shots and editing. There were workers at the site, so NO sneaking down to the creek for a shot of the wheel and falls. I did remove some equipment and other distractions from the shots, but left a worker in 1 of the pics. 4 other views in the comments below. Hope to plan a trip when conditions are better.
The grist mill at Walnford Park, Upper Freehold, NJ.
Another shot from the archives. This is one of those shots that I thought would have a bit more life to it than ended up being the case.
Do cows think "Ah, just another trainspotter?"
Sadly, not a matched pair as Freightliner liveried 90041 leads 90047 north at Barrow Mill with train 4S44, the 12.13 Daventry - Coatbridge intermodal.
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In the shadow of Mount Pleasant,..., is Woodson's Mill, located near Lowesville, Virginia in Nelson County, is a working water powered grist mill that dates back to the late 1700's. It was operated for many years by Dr. Julian Belmont Woodson, a medical doctor and five term State Senator representing Amherst and Nelson Counties. It became known as "Woodson's Mill" and the name was retained by its current owner and operator, J. Gill Brockenbrough, Jr. He purchased the mill in 1983 and restored it to its current state.