Skaneateles Falls, N.Y. — A nearly 150-year-old former textile mill near Skaneateles could find new life as a wind turbine factory powered by wind and water. Kohilo Wind, of Jordan, a young ...

Water-powered industries provided ... developing his portion of the Arcadia parcel by constructing a sawmill that was operating by 1833 and later a shingle mill, the Arcadia Pail Factory, ...

They adapted by establishing grist mills and later shoe and textile factories, powered by water. However, post-World War I economic hardships led to factory closures as industries relocated to ...

Bloomery Mill in Hampshire County, W.Va. (Photo courtesy of Elmer Napier) VIENNA (AP) — Elmer Napier may be the world’s most active documenter of specimens of rural Americana found in West ...

Falls Mill, about 35 miles northeast of Huntsville, Ala., is one of the few privately owned working grist mills in the country. It is also home to the non-profit Museum of Power & Industry.

Using a $250,000 state dam safety grant, the Muskegon River Watershed Assembly is planning to re-route the creek out of the ...

A book called "Water-powered Gristmills of Union County Pennsylvania," by Thomas P. Rich and David W. Del Testa, tells the story that John Bear built the original, three-story mill building in 1784.

Water Mill Water-powered flour mills once ground the bulk of flour from wheat, barley and rye. They also crushed corn to feed poultry and other livestock. Of thousands that once stood along the ...

Cromford Mill, the world's first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill, was built in 1771 by Sir Richard Arkwright. Until about 1790, he developed the mills, warehouses and workshops ...

Elmer Napier may be the world’s most active documenter of specimens of rural Americana found in West Virginia that are way too large to collect in a display case.

Cromford Mill, the world's first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill, was built in 1771 by Sir Richard Arkwright; Until about 1790, he developed the mills, warehouses and workshops ...