Milldam
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A milldam is a dam constructed on a waterway to create a mill pond.
Water passing through a dam's spillway is used to turn a water wheel and provide energy to the many varieties of watermill. By raising the water level so that the overflow has farther to fall, a milldam increases the potential energy that a mill can harness and use for various tasks.
[edit] Examples
Listed are here are some of the innumerable examples of historic milldams and millponds (or place names taken from them) throughout the English-speaking world.
Examples in the United Kingdom include:
- Bramley Millpond in Bramley, Surrey
- Ifield Millpond in Ifield, West Sussex
- Valebridge Millpond on the outskirts of Burgess Hill, West Sussex
- Mill Dam, Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands
Examples in the United States include:
- Milldam Rice Mill in Georgetown County, South Carolina
- Atwater Millpond in Kalamazoo County, Michigan
- Ballardvale Millpond in Ballardvale, Massachusetts
- Bigler's Millpond in Bigler's Mill, Virginia
- Crump's Millpond in Quinton, Virginia
- Gardy's Millpond in Westmoreland and Northumberland County, Virginia
- Glovers Millpond in Glascock County, Georgia
- Goodrich Millpond in Genesee County, Michigan
- Goodwin's Millpond in Marlboro County, South Carolina
- Hands Millpond in Cape May County, New Jersey
- Merchants Millpond State Park in Gates County, North Carolina
- Millpond, a small lake in Butler, New York
- Millpond Acres in Sussex County, Delaware
- Millpond Park in Mount Pleasant, Michigan
- Millpond Plantation in Thomas County, Georgia
- Millpond Reservoir in Burlington, Massachusetts
