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Brian Mengel, Civil Servant
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In addition to the saw and grist mills, which served local needs, there were mills associated with the textile industry.
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John Fielding, CEO
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There are 4 grist mills, 4 saw mills, 2 oil mills, 3 fulling mills, 2 carding machines, a sattinet factory, and a paper mill, which manufactures paper of a very superior excellence.
Grist and saw mills will be built, and salary for their workers will be provided for three years.
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Miles Rhodes, Wine Taster
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Nearly 300 flour (grist) mills operated on county streams and limeburners were employed busily producing lime for soil dressing in southern Lancaster County and neighboring counties and states.
Grist mills were later built in other parts of town, one on Oak Street on Natick Brook, one on Willow Street run by the water which flowed down Walnut Hill on the west side and thence to Lake Cochituate, and one at the dam in South Natick.
The head and consequent energy built up by the stream from this point enticed early entrepreneurs to construct saw mills, grist mills and cider presses in the glen.
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Bori Gonbutoren, Reindeer Herder
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Several grist mills are in progress of erection and the enterprizing spirit of the inhabitants is exemplified in the various permanent improvements that are being made in each settlement necessary to their prosperity, comfort and subsistence.
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Paddy McGuinness, Newsagent
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A review of Mills Atlas of 1825 showed that there were 58 identified grist mills in York, Chester, and Lancaster counties.
This windmill is typical of the grist post mills used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for grinding grain.
Rivers powered saw mills and grist mills from the earliest days, and during the nineteenth century the town supported a number of small industries.
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Shane Kelly, Bar Tender
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Thomas opened saw and grist mills on the Lewis Creek and in 1810 purchased some of the first Merino sheep to be imported into the United States, setting Rokeby on the path to distinction as one of the largest sheep farms in the region.
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Arthur Dawkins, Astro-physicist
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First were the long quiet years they spent being dissected by a small circle of scholars, a period punctured with provocative and sometimes sensationalist theories supplying not only grist for the scholarly mills, but articles everywhere from prestigious scholarly journals to supermarket ragsheets.
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