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  • Thumbnail for Sawmill
    A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Modern sawmills use a motorized saw to cut logs lengthwise...
    21 KB (2,520 words) - 07:17, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johnston's Sawmill Steam Plant
    Johnston's Sawmill Steam Plant is a heritage-listed former sawmill at corner of Santowski Crescent and the Peninsular Development Road, Mount Molloy,...
    33 KB (4,894 words) - 23:08, 22 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hierapolis sawmill
    The Hierapolis sawmill was a Roman water-powered stone sawmill at Hierapolis, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). Dating to the second half of the 3rd century...
    9 KB (879 words) - 18:53, 30 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spalding Township, Michigan
    census. It is named after Jesse Spalding (1833–1904), who operated a steam sawmill at the village in the township that now bears his name. The township...
    7 KB (374 words) - 15:42, 10 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Portland, Oregon
    incorporation on February 8, 1851, Portland had over 800 inhabitants, a steam sawmill, a log cabin hotel, and a newspaper, the Weekly Oregonian. A major fire...
    205 KB (18,742 words) - 06:57, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Halls, Tennessee
    Other early businesses included Young & Sawyer, a steam-powered cotton gin; D. P. Shoffner, steam sawmill and wagon material; J. H. Farmer, saw-, grist-...
    11 KB (982 words) - 17:32, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Doc Maynard
    Yesler to set up a steam sawmill on land sliced from the north part of Maynard's claim and the south part of Boren's. This sawmill helped establish Seattle's...
    11 KB (1,551 words) - 13:42, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for River Forest, Illinois
    Mississippi by the Treaty of Chicago of 1833. 1831 saw the establishment of a steam sawmill on the east bank of the Des Plaines River. In 1842, the first planked...
    20 KB (1,472 words) - 21:08, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Germantown Hills, Illinois
    for which the village would be named more than 100 years later. A steam sawmill was built in 1860, and in the 1890s, the Union House was erected as...
    15 KB (1,003 words) - 17:22, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cumberland, Wisconsin
    between Clear Lake, Wisconsin and Lake Superior. Also around this time, a steam sawmill was set up in northern Cumberland, in what is now the "Mill Hill" area...
    21 KB (1,890 words) - 19:53, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Greenbrier, Arkansas
    boast of eight general stores, three grist mills, four cotton gins, a steam sawmill and a shingle mill, three churches, a six-room school building, and...
    12 KB (1,130 words) - 15:13, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lillestrøm
    times river powered sawmills came into use for the production of building materials. Later Lillestrøm got its own steam sawmill which laid the base for...
    14 KB (1,392 words) - 22:26, 18 April 2024
  • other industries were built in Örbyhus in the early 20th century: a steam sawmill, two bed factories, and a manufacturer of harrows and other farm equipment...
    4 KB (260 words) - 20:10, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for North Norwich, New York
    A hamlet at the northwestern corner of the town on County Road 20. Steam Sawmill Hill – A prominent hill by the northern town line. "2016 U.S. Gazetteer...
    9 KB (697 words) - 14:41, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stanley, Wisconsin
    involved in that first plat. The main early businesses were a small steam sawmill and some charcoal kilns built by the York Iron Company in 1887. In 1891...
    17 KB (1,580 words) - 14:52, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam Corner, Indiana
    University Press. p. 311. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. A local steam sawmill gave the village its name. [1] Steam Corner official website] Covered Bridge Festival website...
    5 KB (257 words) - 01:51, 6 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Port Elgin, Ontario
    in 1874 with a population of about 950. Early industries included a steam sawmill, foundry, and woolen mill. By 1869 the population was 650 and there...
    26 KB (2,725 words) - 05:07, 26 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Vandalia, Ohio
    laid out in 38 lots including a church, hotels, blacksmiths shops, a steam sawmill, meat markets, and a carriage shop. It was named after Vandalia, Illinois...
    18 KB (1,823 words) - 00:02, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inkster, Michigan
    Inkster, a Scotsman born March 27, 1828, in Lerwick, Shetland, operated a steam sawmill on present-day Inkster Road near Michigan Avenue in the early 1860s...
    26 KB (2,178 words) - 18:33, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cambria Township, Michigan
    41.87583°N 84.61250°W / 41.87583; -84.61250. It was named from the steam sawmill built by Chauncey Ferris, and the community had its own post office...
    9 KB (862 words) - 17:14, 2 November 2023
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