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, ...

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.

The film chronicles the industrial evolution of Southern New England, detailing how early settlers faced challenges in farming due to rocky terrain and harsh winters. They adapted by establishing ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The waterwheel at Wake County's historic Yates Mill County Park is being replaced. Eyewitness News ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.