Hydroelectric power has returned to a Derbyshire textile mill that helped ... was the world's first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill and has now been upgraded with 21st Century ...

Caerlee Mill was built by Alexander Brodie in 1788 and added to over the years. It was the first water-powered textile mill in the Borders and is considered "highly significant" by Historic ...

Since New England already had a firmly established textile industry ... Cities with sources of cheap water power in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina were targeted for the new mills, and ...