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

"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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In early years, farmers had to travel many miles to take their grain to a mill to be ground. Often it was a journey of two or three days. Small amounts of grain could be ground by hand with a ...