Glen Mills

An early industrial village. John Taylor built Thornbury (later Sarum) Forge here ca. 1740. He erected Pennsylvania’s first iron-slitting mill here in 1746: this was acquired in 1836 by the Wilcox family for its Glen Mills paper operations. Until 1878 ...

Harts Mills

The Founding Fathers of Wauwatosa were brothers Charles and Thomas Benjamin Hart from New England. In 1835 Charles Hart settled where an old Indian trail forded the Menomonee River. About 1838 the brothers built a water powered sawmill across the ...

The Nona Mills Lumber Company

Organized in 1898, the Nona Mills Lumber Company of Nona, Texas established a saw mill at Leesville in 1899. Company officers were Pres. F.L. Carroll, Vice Pres. G.R. Ferguson, Sec. Treas. J.N. Gilbert, and Asst. Treas. L.B. Pikin. Serviced by ...

Mills & McBayer Cotton Warehouse

West End Commercial Historic District

The National Register

of Historic Places:

Mills & McBayer

Cotton Warehouse

West End Commercial

Historic District

Marker is at the intersection of Augusta Street (South Carolina Route 20) and South Main Street, on the left ...

McBee's Mills

Reedy River Falls Historic Park

Vardry McBee purchased more than 11,000 acres around the Reedy River from Lemuel Alston in 1815. Although McBee lived in Lincolnton, North Carolina, he wished to develop his Greenville property, and in 1819 he build a ...

Charlottesville Woolen Mills

As early as 1795, several types of mills operated here. In 1847, Farish, Jones, and Co., opened a cotton and woolen factory. John A. Marchant gained control of it by 1852 and renamed it the Charlottesville Manufacturing Company. His son, ...

Mills Gate

The former Mills Gate, dedicated in June, 1931, stood fifty feet to the north and was a gift from members of The Training Campus for Nurses, held at Vassar, June to September, 1918.

Proposed by Minnie A. Cumnock Blodgett, ...

Mills Square Flag Pole

Raised September 9, 1905

Made from one log, originally 126 feet in length. 18 inch diameter at base, 5,300 pounds

Shortened 14 feet in 1959

City of Livermore

Historic Preservation Landmark Site

Dedicated July 1998

Marker can be reached from South J Street near 3rd ...

Ellicott’s Mills

A Town Divided

By the 1850s, a prosperous community was located here around the Ellicott family gristmills and ironworks established in the 1770s. When the Civil War began in 1861, the town's population exceeded 2,000. Although the mill workers and merchants ...

Empire Mills

G. W. Woodruff began grist operations in 1861 on this site previously occupied in 1847 by E.T. Taylor Cotton Gin Company and in 1841 by William Waters Garrard’s cotton warehouse. Empire Mills ran night and day during the Civil War ...