In 1868, John P. Cable built a grist mill on the same grounds on which the Cades Cove Visitor Center is presently located. ...

The film chronicles the industrial evolution of Southern New England, detailing how early settlers faced challenges in farming due to rocky terrain and harsh winters. They adapted by establishing ...

Sprehe & Depweg started their flour mill in 1854. Both C. D. Depweg and Francis Sprehe lived in Minster, and their homes are depicted in this etching. The mill, renamed the Minster Milling Company, ...

A grist mill was the life’s blood of the community in the late 1700s thru the mid-1900s. The mills provided communities, like ours, with a way to turn their agricultural products into meal and flour ...

Archaeologist Allison McGovern spoke at the Bryant Library on Feb. 19 about the process of uncovering local history at archaeological sites like the Roslyn Grist Mill. The event was hosted by the ...

Early pioneer accounts always include an early grist mill, or an early sawmill, but it is rare to read about an early paper mill. Yet interestingly, paper production was extremely important. It was ...

Dennis Scholl, vice president of the Hellertown Historical Society, shows the hopper and the millstone for grain Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, in the historic Heller-Wagner Grist Mill in Hellertown. The ...

Restoration of the historic Roslyn Grist Mill continues to advance, with newly installed siding samples along the building’s western exterior offering an early preview of how the landmark will appear ...

The worldwide pandemic has threatened many of the businesses you rely on every day, but don’t let it take away your source for local news. Now more than ever, we need your help to ensure nothing but ...

SEEKONK, Mass. (WPRI) — His name is Ray Point Jr., but most of his regulars call him “the mayor” of the Old Grist Mill. The 61-year-old has worn many hats over the more than three decades he’s worked ...

When teeming rain caused floodwaters to wash away Harbor Road in Stony Brook early last Monday morning, nearly emptying the adjacent Mill Pond, the 273-year-old Grist Mill next door withstood the ...