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The Hendricks/Apex Mill, originally constructed in 1918, was a part of the gold rush that built Bannack’s economy. At this mill, miners extracted gold from ore using cyanide solutions, which was a common practice during the 19th century gold rush. As one of only two intact mills open to the public in Montana, the Hendricks/Apex mill is a very important relic of the state’s industrial past. MHF assisted in the preservation of this building by providing grant money to Bannack State Park for the reconstruction of the mill’s roof. constructed in 1918
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Laughlin Mill, the original three-story log structure was built by William Laughlin around 1763. The Laughlin family also built the dam which provided enough water power to turn the water wheel and grind wheat and other grain. The mill was owned by the Laughlin family until 1896, when it was sold to the Newville Water Company which installed turbine used to pump water through the main pipes of the town. The current structure is a restoration.
This is the oldest mill structure remaining in this region and one of the most photographed sites in Cumberland Valley.
Historic Marker: An on-site marker reads: "Grist mill built about 1763 by William Laughlin. Owned by his family until 1896. Preserved by Ethel T. McCarthy. The oldest such structure remaining in this region."
Once the largest textile mill in the region, Dalton Mills employed over 2000 workers. Built by Joseph Craven in 1869, the new mill replaced a much smaller 1780′s building. In its heyday between 1869 and 1877 the mill provided jobs for workers all over Keighley and the Worth Valley.
In 1889 the contents of the mills were sold at auction. A noble comb was sold for £30 and a pair of standard scales and weights fetched one shilling (5p). The total at the end of just one day of the sale was £11,585. Part of the proceeds went to buy new equipment, some to pay debts, a portion to pay the remaining employees.
In 1904, the flywheel which transferred the power from a huge beam engine (the largest in the world) to drive the looms exploded. The engine was replaced within two months by a pair of horizontal engines.
As the textile industry declined, the fortunes of Dalton Mills changed and up until 2004, it had been virtually empty for almost a decade. John Craven, the great-great grandson of Joseph, who had built the mill, eventually chose to sell Dalton Mills to Magna Holdings, to ensure it’s survival.
Yates Mill, a fully restored, circa 1756 gristmill, served Wake County, North Carolina, as a water-powered mill for more than 200 years. The water-powered gristmill was an important economic and social center for residents of Wake County from colonial times through the early 1900s. Gristmills provided the important service of grinding corn and wheat into meal and flour.
Leeds Industrial Museum, Armley Mills.
Grade ll* listed.
The site of Armley Mills dates from the C16 as a corn and fulling mill. In 1788 Colonel Thomas Lloyd bought the mill and rebuilt it as the largest woollen mills in the world with 18 fulling stocks and 50 looms, managed by Israel Burrows and Christopher Hill. The foundations of the main range are probably of this date; the corn mill was rebuilt at the same time but burnt down in 1797, the rebuild of that date survives.
Benjamin Gott rented the mills from Lloyd while Bean Ing mill was being rebuilt after a fire in 1799, in 1804 he agreed to buy the buildings but a major fire destroyed Lloyd's new structure. Gott's new Armley Mills was built on the same site, powered by two water wheels approx 18 feet in diameter and approx 28½ feet long and fitted with gearing which enabled them to exceed the output of steam engines until c1840. The mill contained fulling stocks extending down the centre of the ground floor, scribbling and carding machines on the 2nd and 3rd floors and mechanics workshops on the top floor. Corn milling ceased c1810 and the building was adapted to textile use. The beam engine house was added c1850 by Gott's sons John and William, and the mill extensively reordered at that time.
By the 1880s the premises were used by a variety of textile
manufacturers and in 1969 Leeds City purchased the buildings for an industrial museum after a period of neglect.
206 Old Dumbarton Road, Glasgow. Grain mill built circa 1850, replacing an earlier mill that burnt down in the 1830s. It closed in 1960 and was converted to flats in 1985.
D407/50007 "Hercules" at Mill Lane(Grassmoor) Approaching Clay Cross North Junction on a Doncaster West Yard-Derby North Dock light engine movement on 13th March 2018(my photo)
Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry.
Taken from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarry_Bank_Mill
The old mill at Bongate in Appleby-in-Westmorland from across the River Eden. The river flows from right to left and the leat left the river just upstream see www.flickr.com/photos/14168877@N04/2231986893/in/set-7215... ) and went under the mill and rejoined the river a little way downstream.
Clearwell Caves - Iron Ore Mine. Really worth a visit at Christmas time, if you're in the area - they dress the caves with literally hundreds of Trees and lights.
I don't think I've mastered the art of low-light photography and I didn't take my tripod, so these shots aren't as good as I'd hoped - still, some unexpected results