First Mill

1630 - 1930

A few rods east stood the house and mill of John Wing built in 1684. This was the only house left standing after the breaking of the second settlement of Worcester.

Marker is at the intersection of Grove Street ...

First Fulling Mill

1630 - 1930

Ten rods west is the site of the first fulling mill in the English colonies, built about the year 1643 by John Pearson.

Marker is at the intersection of Newbury Turnpike (Massachusetts Route 1) and Mill Street, on the ...

First Saw Mill

About three hundred feet south of this monument on the banks of Alambique Creek, stood San Mateo County's first saw mill. Built by Charles Brown in 1847. About the same time Dennis Martin was building a second mill on San ...

Minnesota's First Commercial Sawmill

Sawmilling began here on August 24, 1839, when the Marine Lumber Company cut its first pine log.

In the autumn of 1838 two lumbermen from Marine,

Illinois, David Hone and Lewis Judd, arrived in the St. Croix River valley, attracted by ...

First Cotton Mill In Northwest Georgia

Three Walker County businessmen, Andrew P. Allgood, Spencer S. Marsh and Col. W.K. Briers, officially organized the Trion factory Oct. 12, 1845. It has had few shut-downs since its first production in 1847. In 1858 an epidemic, in 1864 Sherman's ...

First Power Mill for the Manufacture of Knit Fabrics

First Power Mill

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Manufacture of Knit Fabrics

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Erected in 1843, By Egberts & Bailey

Inventors of the Power Knitting

Machine in 1832.

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Hand operated knitting machines were

invented by ...

First Mill

Site Of

First Mill

Built By Sweer Teunise On

Mill Kill 1666. Destroyed

By Flood 1673 and Rebuilt.

First Industry Of The

Mohawk Valley

Marker is on Mill Lane, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of the First Mill At Falls of the Squamscott River

A grist mill built by Thomas Wilson in 1640. The island and site were granted to him by the town which reserved the right for canoe landing and the laying of fish. Wilson’s Creek flows on the easterly side.

Marker is ...

First Successful Cotton Mill in America

In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the First Successful Cotton Mill in America this tablet was presented to the Old Slater Mill Association, present owners of this historic building in honor of the textile pioneer whose name they perpetuate. ...

First Sawmill

First sawmill in Town of Marcellus built 1796 by Deacon Samuel Rice and Judge Dan Bradley.

Marker is on West Seneca Turnpike (Main Street) (New York Route 175) 0.2 miles east of North St. (New York Route 174), on the ...