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Title
A name given to the resource
Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
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Original Format
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Photo stereocard
Physical Dimensions
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3.5 x 7 in.
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Title
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Stereopticon card: Middle Fall of Genesee, at Portage, NY
Description
An account of the resource
From a series titled "View on the Line of Erie Railway," this early photograph of Middle Falls shows the environmental effects of a sawmill located there. After purchasing this tract of land in 1859, William Pryor Letchworth began a long program of replanting trees--which continued as an arboretum program after he donated his estate to New York
Publisher
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L.E. Walker, Publisher, Warsaw, NY
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Photo courtesy of Letchworth State Park Museum
Date
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1857?
Format
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jpeg, 814 KB
jpeg, 347 KB
Erie Railroad
Letchworth State Park
Middle Falls
mills
Portageville, NY
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
The type of object, such as photograph, map, drawing, painting, etc., and any additional data
Photographs
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Title
A name given to the resource
Dam Construction at Ashantee
Description
An account of the resource
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 building 1904," and "Lower side of dam--unfinished."
Publisher
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Wadsworth, Martha Blow (1864-1934)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1904
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Martha Blow Wadsworth Image Collection
Milne Library Special Collections, SUNY Geneseo
Format
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jpeg, 486 KB
jpeg, 652 KB
Ashantee
Conesus Creek
mills
Wadsworth, Herbert
Wadsworth, Martha Blow
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Atlas map
Physical Dimensions
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4" x 5"
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Title
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Ashantee Mills, 1902
Description
An account of the resource
This detail from a 1902 maps shows the Littleville area on Conesus Creek, near the village of Avon NY
Publisher
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Century Map Company
Date
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1902
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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New Century Atlas of Livingston County, New York, With Farm Records (Philadelphia: Century Map Co., 1902)
Format
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jpeg, 12.8 MB
Ashantee
Avon, NY
Conesus Creek
Littleville, NY
mills
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Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Book illustration
Physical Dimensions
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3" x 4"
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Title
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Dorlcote Mill, as envisioned for an edition of George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss"
Description
An account of the resource
Set in the early 18th century, Eliot's rural locale is subjected to changes wrought by industrialization
Publisher
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Harper & Brothers
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1885
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Novels of George Eliot, Vol. II: The Mill on the Floss (NY: Harper & Bros.)
Format
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jpeg, 866 KB
industrialization
Mill
mills
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Photograph
Physical Dimensions
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4" x 3"
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Title
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Glen Avon Mills
Description
An account of the resource
Ca. 1912 photograph of the flour mill on Conesus Creek in Littleville, NY built by Emme Light in 1878 and subsequently operated by his sons John and William. Glen Avon Mills sold several trademarked varieties of flour, including “Peerless,” “Sweet Violet,” “Daisy,” and “White Rose.” Ownership of the mill passed to Lucy (Light) McDonald who in 1949 leased it to a Dutch miller named George A. Bass. In 1951, the town of Avon purchased the mill for its more valuable Conesus Lake water rights, then sold the property back to Bass. Glen Avon Mills ceased operations sometime around the late 1950s.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1912?
Contributor
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Ken Cooper
Source
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Avon Board of Trade, Year Book, 1912, Avon N.Y. (Avon, N.Y.: Avon News Print, 1912)
Format
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jpeg, 4.3 MB
Type
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Photograph
Publisher
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Avon Board of Trade
Avon, NY
Conesus Creek
Glen Avon Mills
mills
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Photograph, black and white
Physical Dimensions
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5.4 x 3.10 in.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Triphammer Falls, town of Avon, N.Y.
Description
An account of the resource
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, near where a trip-hammer and forge were also located.
Creator
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Wadsworth, Martha Blow (1864-1934)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1907?
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Martha Blow Wadsworth Image Collection
Milne Library Special Collections, SUNY Geneseo
Format
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jpeg, 833 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
GENESEE VALLEY
Grist
Milling
mills
wadsworth
Waterfalls
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
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Photograph, black and white
Physical Dimensions
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4 x 3 in.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Paper Mill Falls, Conesus Creek, town of Avon, N.Y.
Description
An account of the resource
Paper Mill Falls is the site of several early mills, including a grist (or flour) mill owned by the Wadsworth family of Geneseo, N.Y.
Format
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jpeg, 791 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Wadsworth, Martha Blow (1864-1934)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1907?
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Martha Blow Wadsworth Image Collection
Milne Library Special Collections, SUNY Geneseo
GENESEE VALLEY
Grist
Milling
mills
wadsworth
Waterfalls
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
The type of object, such as photograph, map, drawing, painting, etc., and any additional data
Photo, black & white
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
3.12 x 4.12 in.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Wadsworth Flour Mill, circa 1907
Description
An account of the resource
Two views of a Wadsworth grist mill located on Conesus Creek in the southern part of the town of Avon, N.Y. It was one of several mills in the area owned by the Wadsworth family of Geneseo, N.Y., beginning in the late eighteenth century.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Wadsworth, Martha Blow (1864-1934)
A great amateur photog
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1907?
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Martha Blow Wadsworth Image Collection (cabinet 2, drawer 3, box 1a)
Milne Library Special Collections, SUNY Geneseo
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg, 723 KB
jpeg, 705 KB
Avon, NY
GENESEE VALLEY
Grist
Milling
mills
wadsworth
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
The type of object, such as photograph, map, drawing, painting, etc., and any additional data
Drawing, black and white
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
6.87 x 2.21 in.
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Title
A name given to the resource
Flour mills along Brown's Race, Rochester, N.Y., in 1880
Format
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jpeg, 399 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
Description
An account of the resource
Brown's Race, a mill-canal built in 1816 on the west side of the Genesee River near the High Halls in Rochester, N.Y., accommodated many mills, including those depicted in this drawing: Whitney Mills (Ferguson and Lewis), Mill "B" (Moseley and Motley), Frankfort Mills (Smith and Sherman), Irving Mills (Stone and Campbell), Mill "A" ( Moseley and Motley), People's Custom Mill (Mertz and Co.), Shawmut Mill (Whitney and Wilson), and Washington Mill (Hinds and Co.).
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester Historical Society
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1880?
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Motley, Maude. "The Romance of Milling: With Rochester the Flour City." Centennial History of Rochester, New York. Ed. Edward R. Foreman. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester Historical Society, 1931. 141-231. Print.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Brown Brothers
Milling
mills
Rochester, NY
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mills of Genesee Valley
Description
An account of the resource
Before the commercial extraction of fossil fuels from the Oil Creek region of northern Pennsylvania, most mechanical work in the Genesee Valley was done by human and animal power, or some source ultimately derived from the sun: burning wood, wind power, or flowing water. The exception to this, of course, was coal--by the 1880s America's dominant source of energy. <br /><br />Due to the Genesee region's ample supply of wood and running water, along with the cost of shipping coal, it's quite common to find instances of various water mills in the area's history. They were adapted to a wide range of uses: cutting wood into timber and milling it into specialized shapes (<strong>lumber mill</strong>); grinding corn into animal feed or for distilling alcohol (<strong>grist mill</strong>); grinding wheat or other grains (<strong>flour mill</strong>); creating boxes and other products from wood pulp (<strong>paper mill</strong>); fabricating metals (<strong>triphammer mill</strong>); powering industrial equipment <strong>(textile mill</strong>); and by the 1880s creating electricity via turbines.<br /><br />This collection gathers various documents concerning mills in the Genesee Valley. In addition to images and written texts, there is also an interactive map illustrating the density of their usage during the mid-nineteenth century.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Original Format
The type of object, such as photograph, map, drawing, painting, etc., and any additional data
Photograph, black and white
Physical Dimensions
The actual physical size of the original image
9.88 x 7.61 in
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Title
A name given to the resource
Grist mill in Mount Morris, N.Y.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
jpeg, 791 KB
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still Image
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1900
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph, looking east, of people bringing sacks of grain to a large mill in the village of Mount Morris, N.Y., for milling and/or storing. This mill appears to be located on State St., next to the mill race that crosses it there, . A 1902 map indicates that it is the Galbraith Mill, situated approximately where the Humphrey Mill once stood.
Source
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Livingston County (N.Y.) Historian's Office
GENESEE VALLEY
Grist
Milling
mills
Mount Morris, NY