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	Mill town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a compliment in that such towns have a clear sense of identity and local history, with personality that a suburb or "edge city" can't match.
		Mills on Merrimack River, Manchester, NH In the northeastern United States, and particularly New England, most of these towns were founded in the early to mid 19th century, when the region became a manufacturing powerhouse, along rivers like the Housatonic River, Blackstone River, Merrimack River, Cocheco River, Saco River, Androscoggin River or Winooski River.
		Duke Street Mill, Blackburn, Lancashire, UK In England, the term mill town often refers to the historically textile-manufacturing towns of Northern England, particularly Lancashire (cotton) and West Yorkshire (wool).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mill_town (316 words)

	Milton, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The town, as it is today, soon after became known as Milton, although not because of the homonymic similarity to Mill Town.
		The new town of Milton added parts of the former township of Esquesing (most of this township comprises Halton Hills), all of Nassagaweya Township including the village of Campbellville, and the northern sections of Trafalgar and Nelson from (a 1962 annexation of the former townships) Oakville and Burlington respectively.
		The town has very easy access throughout the GTA by Highways 401 and 407 towards Oakville, Burlington and Hamilton on the town, or by the former Ontario provincial highway 25.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Milton,_Ontario (696 words)

	On the Job in North Carolina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The new mill is the first of a series of eight mills built by Mebane in nine years along the canal and the Smith River.
		As the mills expanded in the early part of the century, people like Jack Morris's father moved from the Virginia mountains to the Eden area to work in the plants.
		Years earlier, the yet-to-be-incorporated town was first named "Splashy," after the waterfall at Barnett Canal, and it's likely that name would have graced the mill had it not been changed to "Spray" before the plant was built.
	www.workingfilms.org /onthejob/teachers/article_detail.asp?ID=64 (1227 words)

	Town of Mill Creek
		Mill Creek is a refuge a haven to me. I found no peace within my troubled soul and mind but now I have, my friend, my peace since I found Mill Creek.
		Mill Creek was settled in 1835 by a caravan of relatives traveling together from Ohio, the town of Mill Creek was originally called Fish Lake.
		The Mill Creek office, one of the oldest and smallest in the county, is still outfitted with its original brass mailboxes.
	www.laportecounty.org /lincolntownship/mill_creek.html (505 words)

	From Mill Town to National Historic Landmark--Reading 1
		By the 1850s, Waterford's mill was producing flour for a wider market than just the village because the nearby Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad greatly improved the town's links to distant markets.
		Mill entries from 1849 show barrels of flour being hauled to Point of Rocks, Maryland, where they were loaded either onto Chesapeake and Ohio Canal barges or Baltimore and Ohio Railroad freight cars.
		The mill's machinery was sold as scrap iron for the war effort during the early part of World War II.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/88waterford/88facts1.htm (910 words)

	Mill Town Profile: Mechanic Falls, Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When the mill began to shut down one machine, then another, and started laying off people who were never called back; as 250 employees became 180, then 100, and 60, there were those who realized that it could no longer depend on the presence of an operating mill.
		While the current town manager was not there at the time, Lee said this was when the town tried desperately to diversify its economy, although not in time to prevent a decade of hard times.
		While the paper mill remains an important part of the history of Mechanic Falls, the town has developed a new, more diversified economy, allowing it to be no longer held back by the demise of the paper industry.
	magic-city-news.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/1/45/printer (2424 words)

	Exeter News-Letter Local News: Mill, town ponder river water rights
		The town and the mill’s owners are debating how much water the mill should be able to use from the Exeter River.
		The Exeter Mill apartments are cooled by an air conditioning system, which draws river water through a heat exchanger and discharges it back into the river, said Rich Moscatelli, president of Arbor Management, a Massachusetts-based firm that manages the building.
		The town and the mill owners - or their attorneys - currently are negotiating over the interpretation of the language in the contract granting the water rights, he said.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/exeter/10082004/news/41852.htm (662 words)

	Grandin Mill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Grandin today is a small town of 235 inhabitants and a tourism destination for people interested in the history of forestry in Missouri.
		Over the course of the mill's operation, tram lines (temporary railway lines) were built out into the surrounding forests as far as Shannon County to move logs directly from forest to mill.
		The little mill operated the same way as the big mill, but was powered by four boilers and one McDonough engine, and contained lath and shingle mills in addition to the saws.
	www.watersheds.org /farm/grandin.htm (580 words)

	A beleaguered mill town struggles toward reinvention \| csmonitor.com
		Suddenly, this mill town was in the maelstrom of economic and social flux.
		But as the mills are broken down or retrofitted, even Mellons concedes, "It's not a dead town." While 1,200 of the jobs lost in North Carolina belonged to Kannapolis residents, newcomers are snapping up million- dollar homes as fast as they're built, eager to live in what is fast becoming a quaint, private exurb.
		Mellons complains that the town should spend more time wooing industry instead of building a new train depot and a new amphitheater, others say those ideas make sense and are happy to see a new identity emerging for Kannapolis: a bedroom community for booming Charlotte, an hour's drive to the south.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1103/p01s01-usec.htm (1265 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At the time the Lowell cotton mills were started the caste of the factory girl was the lowest among the employments of women.
		The mills were shut down, and the girls went from their several corporations in procession to the grove on Chapel Hill, and listened to incendiary speeches from some early labor reformers.
		One of the girls stood on a pump and gave vent to the feelings of her companions in a neat speech, declaring that it was their duty to resist all attempts at cutting down the wages.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html (1335 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Fire destroys mill town of Monohon on Lake Sammamish on June 26, 1925.
		On June 26, 1925, a fire destroys most of the mill town of Monohon (population 300) on the east shore of Lake Sammamish, in King County.
		The mill was located right along the lake front, almost due west of the 2005 location of the Sammamish Plaza Shopping Center, near the intersection of East Lake Sammamish Parkway and Southeast 33rd Street (the mill extended farther south than the shopping center does).
		Initially most firefighters had stayed in the mill area to try to contain the fire, but now they raced up into the town itself to fight the fire, to warn loved ones, and in some cases to try to salvage what they could before the fire reached their homes.
	www.historylink.org /output.cfm?file_id=7361 (1367 words)

	On "Mill Town"
		"Mill Town" provides a gendered vocabulary of working class experience by suggesting the double meaning of the word "labor." The woman of this "mill town" experiences the excessive strains of wage-labor and that of repeated childbirth.
		It also complicates Taggard's desire to create a sense of hope in her readers, and to keep with the objectives of the proletarian literature of the period to present the working class as progressive agents determined to usher in a new age and new culture.
		The public performance of motherhood in "Hill Town" thus refuses motherhood's insularity and disallows an accusation of the mother than doesn't implicate the public.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /Maps/poets/s_z/taggard/milltown.htm (1243 words)

	Town of Fort Mill, SC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Town of Fort Mill (established 1873) is located just south of the state line shared with North Carolina.
		The Town is governed by a mayor and six council members and has adopted the Council/Manager form of government.
		The total budget for the Town for fiscal year 2004 is $7,488,043.
	www.fortmillsc.org (111 words)

	Kimlin Cider Mill Public Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was a “Cedar Avenue institution,” and a “mecca” for Vassar girls who made the mill famous “around the world.” For decades, local teachers took their students to this extraordinary place, and families made at least one annual visit to this very special building.
		The Town of Poughkeepsie and the Mid-Hudson Valley region are very lucky indeed to have such an unusual and fascinating building as the Kimlin Cider Mill.
		It would be very easy to downplay the cider mill as an unimportant dilapidated “blight” and level it down to the fertile soil that was farmed well before any of us were born all in the name of “progress”.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/2843/cidermillpubliccomments.html (2118 words)

	Our Town - Mill Valley, California! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It is created by 3rd graders at Edna Maguire Elementary School in Mill Valley as part of their studies about the history of their town and the people who lived here.
		Our town of Mill Valley is located in Marin County, California just 12 miles north of San Francisco by way of the Golden Gate Bridge.
		It's name derives from a lumber mill near the center of town (now across from Old Mill Elementary School) where redwood trees were milled to build the homes of San Francisco.
	www.mvschools.org /ourtown/OTindex.html (412 words)

	Our Town - Today's Mill Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Is it called Mill Valley because of the Mill and because of the valley?
		The Old Mill, which islocated in Old Mill Park in downtown Mill Valley gave the town its name and is the most important man-made landmark.
		In 1849 someone decided to build a steam-powered mill in Sausalito which could go faster than Reed's Mill and everybody decided that was better.
	www.mvschools.org /ourtown/johnson/omhk.html (476 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: TOWNS' MILL, TX
		Towns' Mill was an early settlement on the east bank of the San Gabriel River in central Williamson County, a short distance from the site of present Weir.
		In the 1890s the town had a store, a flsmith shop, and a cotton gin, and it prospered until the Georgetown and Granger Railroad bypassed it at the turn of the century.
		The town declined further after a 1913 flood destroyed the mill, and by 1948 Towns' Mill had ceased to exist as a recognized community.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/TT/hvt55.html (247 words)

	USATODAY.com - Travel - News - Former mill town emerging as seacoast retreat for tourists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For starters, the stench of the paper mill — "the smell of money," locals called it — is history, the mill reduced to a rubble-strewn vacant lot.
		The town of St. Joseph dates to the 1830s, actually serving as the town where Florida's constitution was drafted in 1838 and 1839.
		In 1841, three-fourths of the population succumbed to yellow fever that arrived on a Spanish freighter.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/news/features/2003/2003-03-24-stjoe.htm (2165 words)

	Woonsocket - My Home Town - Slater Mill Historic Site
		Located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the Slater Mill Historic Site offers visitors a unique opportunity to see how the Blackstone River Valley was transformed from a series of small farming and milling communities into one the nineteenth century's great industrial centers.
		Built in 1793, the original Slater Mill was a modest 29 foot by 42 foot, 2 ½ story structure now obscured by later additions.
		The Wilkinson Mill demonstrates the changes in mill design after twenty years of industrial experience.
	www.woonsocket.org /woonslatermill.htm (533 words)

	Fort Bragg sees future in polluted past / Rustic legacy could transform old mill town into tourist attraction
		Touring the mill site, she drove through waving grass where piles of logs once awaited the saws, and where stack after stack of redwood planks and beams once dried in the sun.
		Study the crumbling mill buildings, potentially tainted ponds and acres gray with ash spread from the mill's power plant, and a tourist mecca is harder to visualize.
		Research revealed the town's dream: A new neighborhood at the north end, an improved wastewater facility using a living marsh, light industry (such as a mill for the Krenov Fine Furniture program at College of the Redwoods), a marine biology lab, a big town square and a seaside park.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/16/MNGOLBBO5R1.DTL (2060 words)

	Preservation Online: Today's News Archives: Michigan Mill Town Debates Demolition of Mill
		That's the question in Rochester, Mich., which is considering a new downtown condominium development called Mill Town.
		Many local preservationists would like to see the 1875 portion of the mill preserved alongside the new condos, perhaps as a community center, restaurant, or clubhouse.
		It says the mill isn't structurally sound, so it recently introduced a proposal to place a historical marker on the site instead.
	www.nationaltrust.org /Magazine/archives/arc_news/091504p.htm (437 words)

	A Mill for Our Mill Town - Zip Publishing
		Kyler is heavily involved in researching the look of old mills and plans to tour a variety of them when attending a conference sponsored by SPOOM – the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills – in Westminster later this month.
		When this area had many mills, they were of many different designs and materials, so the design of this new mill could go in a variety of directions.
		So far, consensus is that the mill project would be a tremendous boon to tourism and economic development in Ellicott City, drawing significant numbers to see the newest thing in our wonderful old town.
	www.theviewnewspapers.com /article.asp?article=6419&paper=91&cat=187 (675 words)

	village voice > news > Pulp Friction by Kareem Fahim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Natives of this remote town in New Hampshire's North Country, they had worked at the mill since the mid '70s and had savings to draw on when their jobs disappeared.
		The mill is actually two mills, both built in the late 1800s and which drew workers from Canada and Northern Europe.
		He's already been endorsed by the mill workers' international union, based largely on the Missourian's opposition to both NAFTA and the China trade bill, and Eddie DeBlois, president of Local 75, is trying to rally his 850 members to go along.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0403/fahim.php (1865 words)

	Waterford, Virginia: From Mill Town to National Historic Landmark
		A National Historic Landmark District, Waterford preserves the ambiance and many of the structures that characterized it during its heyday as a flour milling town in the 19th century.
		He could stroll from his 1733 home to the area of his original mill and then on to the Quaker meeting house he founded in 1741.
		In 1943, descendants of village families and newcomers interested in preserving the buildings, traditions, and rural character of Waterford formed the non-profit Waterford Foundation.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/88waterford/88waterford.htm (200 words)

	David L. Carlton, Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880–1920 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		However, as thousands of rural whites moved into the mill villages at the turn of the century, their backwoods independence proved increasingly incompatible with the orderly, hierarchial outlook of the town people.
		As a result, the town people soon abandoned their belief in white equality and instead began to view the mill people as backward folk needing to be brought under the control of their betters.
		Tracing the social impact of southern industrialization from its beginnings to the ruse of the demagogue politicians of the early twentieth century, this study by David L. Carlton isolates the role of the textile mills in bringing increased rigidity and tension to the loose social structure of the preindustrial South.
	www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/1982/Carlton_Mill.html (334 words)

	Cedar Bluff VA Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cedar Bluff is a charming 19th century mill town centered around the Old Kentucky Turnpike, a quaint street looking much as it did when the Virginia Legislature chartered the thoroughfare in 1848.
		From the elaborately restored old grist mill to the 1873 birthplace of Virginia Governor George C. Peery, our Historic District offers you the nostalgia of a time gone by.
		This wonderfully beautiful mill is a highlight of cedar Bluff.
	www.cedarbluffva.org (268 words)

	Everett: New life breathes in old mill town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		May, who lived in Edmonds before moving to Everett 18 years ago, remembers when Everett was "kind of a run-down mill town," and he has watched its transformation into an upscale housing area.
		Gone are the saloons that lined Hewitt Avenue, the brothels and the foul pall of sulfurous smoke that once draped the city.
		Where the big mills once belched, the city is now touting tourist attractions of the politically correct kind.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /neighbors/everett (692 words)

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