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Wheal Martyn is a museum and preserved china clay works near St Austell in Cornwall, England. Its exhibits document the extraction and processing of kaolin, an industry that significantly shaped the surrounding landscape and local communities. The site combines historic machinery, a restored 19th-ce...
Cedarburg Mill is a former water-powered flour mill in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, built in 1855 by Frederick Hilgen and William Schroeder. The main block is a five-story stone structure with Greek Revival details, monitor roofs, and thick locally quarried limestone walls; it replaced an earlier wooden mi...
Enfield Falls Mill is a historic gristmill in Robert H. Treman State Park, New York. Built in 1839, it used a water-powered turbine to drive machinery for processing grain, placing it within the history of small-scale waterpower and rural milling. The mill was listed on the National Register of Hist...
The Kennedy-Wade Mill is an early 19th-century merchant mill in Virginia, built around an undershot waterwheel and machinery used for water-powered milling. In an undershot system, the water passes beneath the wheel, turning it through the force of the current rather than from water falling over its...
Emmett Isaacs Mill is a North Carolina water-powered gristmill in Surry County, associated with rural cornmeal milling in the Yadkin region.
Causey's Mill is a historic gristmill constructed in 1866 by John Causey, surviving today as a historic site in Newport News, Virginia.
The Fair Haven Flour Mill is a historic 19th-century industrial mill building located in Vermont, recognized for its early regional production.
Janefield Mill was an early water-powered flour mill on the Plenty River at Bundoora, Victoria. George Coulstock built it in the early 1840s to process local grain; the three-storey bluestone mill had a 16-foot breast wheel and later processed about eight bushels of wheat per hour. Reduced river flo...
Hepburn’s Werona Mill, also called Hepburn’s Flour Mill or Captain Hepburn’s Mill, was a water-powered flour mill associated with settler John Hepburn near Kingston in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1841, it used a diversion from Hepburn Lagoon, a water race, and a waterwheel to process grain; the si...
The Glendining and McKenzie Mill is a historic 19th-century sawmill in Ontario, Canada, notable for representing early regional timber industries.
