Keywords Southern New England, industrial evolution, early settlers, grist mills, shoe manufacturing, textile industry, economic hardships, factory closures, community resilience, new industries ...

So in the early '30s, iron pipe was installed and ... by Oliver Evans and it was the most efficient way to organize a grist mill with the power plant downstairs milling and packing on this floor ...

"It tells a whole story about grist mills on Long Island," Kroplick said. "And how important they were to the early economy of Long Island." A four-phase renovation is expected to finish in 2027.

Early settlers would make long, arduous treks to the nearest gristmill to have their wheat, corn, oats and other grains ground into flour or feed. Without such mills, pioneer life could be cruel.

McGovern also spoke about the importance of grist mills to early Long Island communities and how the now mostly forgotten buildings helped power the industry by grinding flour, wheat, and other ...

Courtesy of the 1880 Atlas of Auglaize County, Ohio, by H.G. Howland Smoke billowed from the Minster Milling Company in the early ... Depweg Mill in 1854, becoming the third grist mill in Minster.

The owners of the Argentine Township property decided to sell it after an unsuccessful attempt to transform the building into ...

When teeming rain caused floodwaters to wash away Harbor Road in Stony Brook early last Monday morning, nearly emptying the adjacent Mill Pond, the 273-year-old Grist Mill next door withstood ...

A local landmark, the mill by the early 1970s had structural issues and ... local residents had their grain turned to flour or animal feed at the grist mill. The three women worked with Robert ...