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What looks to be an abandoned mill of some sort in Livingston Manor, NY along the old O&W railroad main line.
Photo taken June 26th 2010 . As Rutland Garments, the Mills building was once an important local hosiery trade employer.
An abandoned Mill that has (again) been earmarked for conversion to apartments. This time part of the structure is slated to be demolished.
Blair Mill on Blair Creek, in Blair, a community in Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, 91 Old Mill Road. Blair Creek runs into the Grand River. The original grist mill was built by Samuel Bowman in 1846. Peter Shirk bought the mill from Bowman in 1866. Shirk sold the mill in 1869 when he went into partnership with Samuel Snider to operate the mills in Bridgeport and Baden. (Those two mills are shown earlier in this photo series). Allan Bowman, Samuel Bowman's son-in-law, became the owner in 1881. He is often credited for building the Sheave Tower across the street but that is in dispute by some because the Sheave tower is known to have been built in 1876. Blair Mill is unique among historic Ontario mills for having the Sheave tower as an auxiliary water power source from the same creek. The Sheave tower, shown earlier, provided power to the mill over a 300 foot cable. Jacob Hilborn acquired the Blair mill in 1884. He and his sons, Amos and Joseph, ran the mill until 1921. The Blair mill peaked under their management. Today the mill is apparently still in operation on a part time basis. Oh, I almost forgot, yes that proverbial mill fire managed to have its way with this historical mill as well. This once four storey mill burned down in 1931 and was rebuilt as a one storey mill on the original foundation. You can see the old foundation in the photo. Blair was originally known as Shinglebridge.
General Mills Kids Breakfast Cereal, 2/2015, by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube
I produced a great looking board yesterday on my little CNC mill. The
solution was to add $4 worth of fender washers so that I could remove
any vibration from the mill table. I'm using the same bits and
configuration files between the these two circuit boards. The only
thing that changed was the fender washers.
During our 2016 vacation, we visited the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill museum in Salem, Oregon, part of the Willamette Heritage Center.
Sheldon mill on Sheldon creek in the little known community of Sheldon, Adjala Tosorontio township, Simcoe County, Ontario. Joseph Alexander built a flour and grist mill on this site in 1824. It passed through several owners until Wilfred Nelson owned and operated it. A fire ended the mill operation in 1963. Nelson had been involved with the mill for fifty years. At the time of the fire, the Sheldon mill was the second oldest continuously running water driven mill in Ontario. The Nelson family sold the mill after the fire. The current owners built the present building on the old foundation and added a decorative water wheel. The wheel was turning while I was there. The mill pond and dam are still present. Amusingly, Sheldon was once called Pigtown and Gutter Gap. It was officially changed to Sheldon when a post office opened there in 1867. It was rumored the government changed the village name simply to give it a more mellifluous one. To get to this mill take the Mono Adjala townline road north from Hockley to Sheldon. It will be on your left before you reach Rosemont. It is a well kept private estate. The mill is only one of the buildings. You will need a long lens to take a photo of it from the edge of the property.
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Sturminster Mill - a frosty -4c this morning
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The mills closed and left a long time ago.
I've spent many days enjoying the water here, either fishing from the banks or swimming in the cool clear water.
Fine 1/6th scale model of a Universal Milling machine on a pallet. I have spent a few hours working away on machines like this one.
Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
Quarry Bank Mill was established by Samuel Greg, and was notable for innovations both in machinery and also in its approach to labour relations, the latter largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody. The family took a somewhat paternalistic attitude toward the workers, providing medical care for all and limited education to the children, but all laboured roughly 72 hours per week until 1847 when a new law shortened the hours.
Greg also built housing for his workers, in a large community now known as Styal Estate. Some were conversions of farm houses, or older residences but 42 new cottages, including the Oak Cottages (now Grade II Listed), were built in the 1820s when the mill was being expanded.
The National Trust, which runs the mill and Styal Estate as a museum that is open to the public, calls the site "one of Britain's greatest industrial heritage sites, home to a complete industrial community". According to the Council of Europe, the mill with Styal village make up "the most complete and least altered factory colony of the Industrial Revolution. It is of outstanding national and international importance".
This is the mill next to the Herr's Mill Covered Bridge. I have been looking to find info on this mill but i can't seem to find any right now.
Cromford Mill, the world’s first successful water powered cotton spinning mill, was built in 1771 by Sir Richard Arkwright. From then until around 1790, he continued to develop the mills, warehouses and workshops, which now form the Cromford Mills site. The site presents a remarkable picture of an early textile factory complex and is Grade 1 Listed. It is part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
A selection of Mills' open top coaches. The chap in centre in Walter Mills himself and the building in the background is the cottage that has now been uncovered following the demolition of the old garage.
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Catalog #: Iraq_00990
Collection: Edwin Newman Collection
Album #: AL38
Page #: 4
Picture on Page: 2
Description : Mill stream
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Mill Road post mill at Catfield, Norfolk c1920s. It was demolished in the late 1930s - more info on the Norfolk Mills website: www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Windmills/catfield-mill-rd-postmil...
Denford Mill over the River Kennet at Hungerford, Berks. I used my iPhone here because I was giving someone my undivided attention rather than lugging around my Z9!
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Nice looking mill! Chimney long gone...
Described by Mike Rothwell in his book, Industrial Heritage: A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Blackburn: Pt 1: The Textile Industry as follows...
"John Fish's factory of 1851-52. Fish, an operative at jubilee and Brookhouse Mills, entered manufacture at the Silk Mill, Ainsworth St., c1843. From 1847-51 in partnership with Robert Watson at Stonebridge, Oswaldtwistle. The original buildings contained approximately 40,000 mule spindles and 600 looms worked by a 60 hp beam engine. Terraces of housing were built in Princess and John Bright Streets. Second spinning mill, with separate engine, boiler and chimney and extension to weaving shed 1859-60. 66,900 spindles, 924 looms employing 1000 by 1870's. A further addition in 1889-90 increased spindles to 73,288. The factory principally wove shirtings.
John Fish Ltd., formed 1874, directors included Wm. Sandeman and members of the Fish family. New boiler house built 1899; triple expansion inverted vertical engine by George Saxon & Co., installed 1906 to drive both mills. William Birtwistle secured control of John Fish Ltd., 1907.
Following 1945 the mills were modernized; mules replaced by 29,000 ring spindles, weaving shed rebuilt 1949-50, automatic looms installed. William Birtwistle Allied Mills ceased spinning in 1975 and weaving temporarily in 1980. During 1983-84 production was transferred from Cicely Bridge Mill to Waterfall. Current weaving capacity comprises 160 Piconals and 200 Northrops, some in the card room of the original mill.
Buildings: mainly brick built, with pilasters and stone parapet supported on brackets. Stone plinths to most buildings. The later additions are in machine pressed brick.
Old End - 4 storey spinning mill, 9 x 14 bays on longest side; single storey card room extension in recess on Peel Street. Beam engine house (converted to loading bay) projects from west gable, entrance and staircase turret adjoins. Tower on south side. 1906 engine house at right angle, facade on Peel Street has semi-circular Pediment, elaborate keystone arch window and "Waterfall Mills" in glazed brick. Rope race to rear. 1899 boiler house, with rooms above, just beyond. Plant includes three Lancashire boilers and two oil-fired units. Circular brick chimney. Single storey watch house, office and weigh house at corner of Peel and Queen Victoria Streets. Reconstructed weaving shed under north wall of spinning mill. An older stone built block with hipped roofs faces the yard. Two storey loading bay with hoist turret in corner.
New End - 4 storey 21 x 4 bay fireproof spinning mill extending along Queen Victoria Street. Two infilled round-headed doors at south west corner (for original boilers), gable end has two windows which probably lit the engine house. Taking in doors and hoist beam. Note also the wall brackets which may have carried a drive from the later engine. Brick tower with cast iron tank projects from north wall of mill. Chimney base adjoins. Beyond are the main offices and board rooms. Additional buildings on Queen Victoria Street comprise two and singe storey warehouses with loading bays to street. Housing - the terraces of houses erected by Fish have been demolished. Modern factory units have been erected on the site."
Buildings not listed.
Ishi led us on a walking talk about the history and significance of Mill Creek.
The Mill Creek is a stream in southwest Ohio. It flows 28.4 miles southwest and south from its headwaters in West Chester of Butler County through central Hamilton County and the heart of Cincinnati into the Ohio River just west of downtown. The section of Interstate 75 through Cincinnati is known as the Mill Creek Expressway.
The Mill Creek Valley is a remnant of the Deep Stage Ohio River from the days of the Last Glacial Maximum. The stream, with its water power and valley, were important to the development of Cincinnati. Then, for a time, the steep hillsides that surround the creek limited expansion and gave impetus to the free growth of surrounding communities that were over that barrier. Finally, inclined planes solved the problem, before highways and automobiles eliminated it.
Throughout Cincinnati's history, Mill Creek has been the scene of heavy industry. At the turn of the 20th-century, it was seen as "a great open city sewer". In 1997, it was described as "the most endangered urban river in America."
is throwing a party along the banks of the Mill Creek at Koenig Park. This three-part event celebrates our shared water resource: the Mill Creek. This year is also the Council’s 20th anniversary! At the celebration will be marking 20 years of Mill Creek improvement as we charge forward for another 20 years of success.
Family-friendly event activities include:
Mill Creek canoe outing (seating is limited)
Loop bike ride
Free dinner
Stream restoration information
Live music
Family games
What: 4th Annual Mill Creek ReCreation Celebration & 20th Anniversary
When: Sunday, September 27, 1-6:30 (canoe float, bike ride, and party!)
Canoe outing: 1:00pm (RSVP required, seating limited)
Bike ride: 2:00pm (RSVP required, seating limited)
Celebration: 3:30pm
Where: Koenig Park, 520 W Columbia Avenue, Reading, Ohio 45215
For more information about the history of Mill Creek, read The Mill Creek: an Unnatural History of an Urban Stream, by Dr. Stan Hedeen
1787: The stream, previously called “Maketewa” by the Native Americans, was referred to as “Mill Creek” on a land contract written by John Cleves Symmes, a congressman from New Jersey. The name was used as a marketing campaign to drive buyers to the land. New settlers to the area were interested in building saw mills and grist mills on the stream.
1830s: First slaughterhouses were opened in the Mill Creek Valley. Industrial growth begins to rapidly increase.
1871: Noticeable amounts of sewage and waste were being dumped into the Mill Creek.
1892: Cincinnati Health Department recommends that the city adopt a plan to do something about the nuisance of the Mill Creek. It stunk…
1902: Mill Creek was found to be the foulest watercourse in Ohio according to the Board of Health.
1913: Records of large amounts of water being pumped out of the stream for industrial use, and pumped back in the stream untreated, hot, and/or polluted. Among the biggest industrial operations on the Mill Creek were distilleries, slaughterhouses, and animal byproduct businesses. “Each liquid gallon flowing from the Mill Creek’s mouth in 1913 contained a cup of warm swill contributed by thirty-six alcohol, meat, and animal by-product firms.”
Sierra Pacific announces closure of Susanville Mill
By Shayla Ashmore
News Editor
Sierra Pacific Industries announced the permanent closure of its Susanville sawmill last week due to a serious log shortage. Sierra Pacific spokesman Ed Bond said all employees would get 60-days notice before the mill is closed and dismantled sometime during the first three months of 2004. Employees will receive the notice once an exact closure date is set.
Bond said current employees will be asked if they would like to transfer to another Sierra Pacific facility, and if so where.
"And we will attempt to accommodate those transfers," he said on Tuesday, Dec. 16.
Bond said George Emmerson, SPI's vice president of sales and operations, came to Susanville personally to announce the closure to mill crews.
"This is one of the most difficult things the company has had to do," Bond said of the meeting with employees.
"Someone might consider this as a terrible time - before the holidays - to be telling people this," Bond said. "Well, there's no good time to tell people this and we felt that if this is going to happen, we'd already made the decision that they should know so they can plan accordingly. It wouldn't be right if someone went out and a bought a new car or signed up for a new home or something with the prospect of not having a job there."
SPI officials only made the decision to close the mill on Thursday, Dec. 11 and employees were notified as soon as possible, he said.
"We wanted to minimize the heartache of speculation and uncertainty for the families and move forward," an SPI press release issued late on Monday, Dec. 15 quoted Bond.
Company officials cited the loss of Forest Service timber, unfair competition from states with fewer environmental regulations and foreign imports as the reasons behind the difficult decision. In the press release, SPI pointed out timber sales from the Lassen National Forest fell from 108 million board feet in 1990 to 17.9 million in 2002.
"That mill has been designed to cut higher grade logs," Bond said. "And even with the Healthy Forest initiative and the Quincy Library Group programs, why, the types of logs that would be coming off of those from the Forest Service would not be the higher grade logs that would be necessary for that mill."
Found this photo being used here:
Potomac Mills (1,839,130 square feet)
2700 Potomac Mills Circle, Woodbridge, VA
Opened September 12th, 1985
The top of Mill Lane has this cluster of buildings that form a part of Liscard Centre.
The HSBC marks the top of Liscard Precinct, the shopping heart of Wallasey. Since the 70's through traffic has been diverted around the middle of Liscard via the one way system.
The 60s and 70s brought construction of Liscard House, possibly sitting on one of the highest points in the town (after Gorsehill Road in New Brighton) the block of flats can be seen from as far a field as Upton, Everton and Tranmere. The Tower Pub was presumably built at the same time as the block but I can't be sure. The name certainly suggests so!
Liscard Road is off to the left and links Liscard with Egremont and Seacombe.
Inside the Tide mill built in 1403.
A tide mill is a water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. A dam with a sluice is created across a suitable tidal inlet, or a section of river estuary is made into a reservoir. As the tide comes in, it enters the mill pond through a one way gate, and this gate closes automatically when the tide begins to fall. When the tide is low enough, the stored water can be released to turn a water wheel.
Tide mills are usually situated in river estuaries, away from the effects of waves but close enough to the sea to have a reasonable tidal range. These mills have existed since the Middle Ages, and some may go back to the Roman period.
This one is in Corroios, Seixal, Portugal.
The red-painted Starr’s Mill, in Fayette County just a mile south of Peachtree City, is one of the most historic, picturesque and famously photographed sites in the state. The Mill sits along what was once a portion of the old McIntosh Trail, a famous Indian trail that ran from the Ocmulgee River on the eastern border of Butts County in Georgia onward to Alabama and beyond.
Starr’s Mill has been featured in numerous magazines as well as the movie "Sweet Home Alabama” starring Reese Witherspoon. It also is the site of one of Fayette County’s most bizarre and unsolved murders mysteries. On November 1, 1966, George Lynch, who was the mill caretaker for many years, was found unconscious at the mill. He died the next day. An autopsy determined he had suffered a blow to the head. Oddly enough, nine years earlier in 1957 on the very same day, Lynch’s wife, Fannie Lou Lynch, had died at Starr’s Mill when a car hit her as she walked across the bridge.
You can visit Starr’s Mill any day of the year. There are picnic tables and lights. Fishing is permitted in the mill pond with a Georgia license.
Below is an essay about Starr’s Mill from The Flint River: A Recreational Guidebook to the Flint River and Environs by Fred Brown and Sherri Smith Brown.
At one time numerous gristmills for grinding grain operated along the Flint River and its tributaries above the Fall Line. These were some of the region’s earliest industry. Starr’s Mill, located on Whitewater Creek in Fayette County, is one of the few gristmills that remain standing in the area.
In all, 16 property owners and three mills have been part of the Starr’s Mill history. Hananiah Gillcoat, the property’s second owner, constructed the first mill sometime between 1822 and 1827, just after the region was opened to settlement in 1821. Records indicate that the second millhouse to stand on the site burned to the ground around 1900, supposedly by arson. In 1907 the property’s 13th owner, William T. Glower, built the present wooden millhouse, on the same foundation, and the concrete dam.
Over the years, the mill, as well as the community that grew up around it, became known as Starr’s Mill, after 10th owner Hilliard M. Starr, who acquired the property in 1866. An 1870 census lists H. M. Starr Mill as having a maximum capacity of 100 bushels per day, $5,000 capital, two water wheels and 30 horsepower.
A cotton gin that served the community once stood at the opposite end of the dam. It was capable of ginning one bale of cotton per hour. Gates on each end of the dam opened and closed to regulate the necessary flow of water needed to drive the gin’s machinery, as well as the mill. The gin operated until the mid-1940s and was blown down by a wind storm in 1955. In 1959 Starr’s Mill ceased production and the remains of the old cotton gin were town down.
Like other mill ponds, the mill pond at Starr’s Mill was the center of community activities. Fishing, swimming, camping and family reunions took place around the pond. The April 15, 1904, Fayetteville News reported that Col. A. O. Blalock caught the biggest fish of the season, a 17 pound carp, at Starr’s pond, “a fine pull as the water was ten feet deep where he caught it.”
In 1991, Fayette County purchased the mill for use as a water system reservoir. You aren’t allowed to swim there anymore, but on a June day, fishermen trying their hand can still be seen fishing among the lily-padded tail waters of the Starr’s Mill dam.
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Quarry Bank Mill (also known as Styal Mill) in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Quarry Bank Mill was established by Samuel Greg, and was notable for innovations both in machinery and also in its approach to labour relations, the latter largely as a result of the work of Greg's wife, Hannah Lightbody. The family took a somewhat paternalistic attitude toward the workers, providing medical care for all and limited education to the children, but all laboured roughly 72 hours per week until 1847 when a new law shortened the hours