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 ...

In 1925, the Southeast Missourian lamented the decline of water-powered mills in Cape Girardeau County. Once vital to local industry, these mills such as Old Appleton’s faced extinction because ...

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

The waterwheel at Wake County's historic Yates Mill County Park in Raleigh, North Carolina, is being replaced.

There was a time in the mid- to late-1700s to mid-1800s when mills dotted the landscape along stream valleys throughout Fairfax County.

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 ...

When Slater Mill opened in 1793, it signaled the eventual demise of river herring and other migratory fish in the Blackstone River. That might change.

A crumbling building sitting next to the creek just off the driveway — which they assumed to be storage — was quickly discovered to be a water-powered mill that hadn’t run in more than 40 years.

Although, like many Nebraska “firsts,” the first flouring mills were at Fort Atkinson and Mormon Winter Quarters at Florence in 1847, but with the formation of the Nebraska Territory in ...

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 ...