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Two photographs taken by Martha Blow Wadsworth (wife of Herbert Wadsworth) show the building of a dam to power a mill at Ashantee, roughly where Littleville Road crosses Conesus Creek. The captions read: "Upper side of dam at Ashantee in process of…

Located between the towns of Waltham and Belmont, MA the falls were the site of a mill that had burned down and remained a picturesque feature on the estate of landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland. The stream and appear to have been referenced…

Beginning in the late 18th century, Conesus Creek and other waterways near Avon provided mechanical power for a variety of milling functions

This detail from a 1902 maps shows the Littleville area on Conesus Creek, near the village of Avon NY

Set in the early 18th century, Eliot's rural locale is subjected to changes wrought by industrialization

This illustration from Eric Sloane's "Vanishing America" shows the sophisticated and aesthetically pleasing designs of hand-crafted millstones

Detail from David H. Burr's "Map of the County of Livingston" shows the location of five different mills via icon. Captions have been added to identify their names.

Primitive painting by D. Sterner provides a nineteenth-century view of Gilbert Mills on North Avon Rd. in the town of Avon, N.Y. The grist mill, built in 1808, and other buildings on the property were purchased in the 1950s and renovated and restored…

In this plate from Oliver Evans' 1795 text "The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide," four different designs are illustrated: undershot, tub, breast shot, and overshot.

Bathers, friends of Martha Blow Wadsworth (wife of Herbert Wadsworth), frolicking in the falls at the Triphammer site in the southern part of the town of Avon, N.Y. The Wadsworth family of Geneseo owned a flour mill at this spot on Conesus Creek,…