Sentence examples for built mills from inspiring English sources

Part of the Queensbury Patent (1759; now Queensbury town [township]), it was settled in the 1760s by Quakers as Wing's Falls (for Abraham Wing, leader of the settlers) and was renamed (1788) for Colonel Johannes Glen, who built mills there.

He was an energetic, ambitious man who acquired much land, built mills, took an interest in opening iron mines, and sent his two eldest sons to England for schooling.

Anyone who built mills to produce recycled paper could finance with bonds exempt from federal income taxes.

They each built mills.

Jedediah Strutt, who was Arkwright's partner in the first Cromford Mill, built mills at Belper and Milford in 1776 1881.

Between 1777 and 1783, Arkwright and his family built mills at Bakewell, Cressbrook, Rocester, and Wirksworth, spread across Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

Details of adjacent buildings, like the smokestacks of a nearby power plant, the doorway of a recently built mill and a mélange of roofs and chimneys, also seem to occupy the room.

In 1994 and 1995 a billion dollars' worth of muni bonds were issued to build mills to turn out de-inked, recycled pulp, the bonds carrying coupons as high as 12%;free of federal income taxes.

You absolutely do not want to build mills until you've exhausted all the natural resources.

Along the river to the north, his brother Staats Hammond built two mills along the river; the small settlement of Hammond's Mill became today's Hawthorne.

He wrote a treatise on Euclid's postulates, built water mills and fortifications on the Orontes River, and constructed the second-oldest existing Arabic celestial globe.