water-powered mills
Stream-driven grinding facilities
Water-powered mills are buildings where machinery is driven by the force of flowing or falling water, typically through a waterwheel or turbine.
For centuries they ground grain into flour, but the same power source ran sawmills, textile mills, and paper mills.
The old water-powered mills along the river have been converted to restaurants and shops.
The technology preceded steam and electricity as the primary means of industrial production.
- gristmillBuilding for grinding grain
- flour productionProcessing grain into powder
- sawmillLog-to-board factory
- millstoneGrain-crushing circular stone
- riversFlowing bodies of water
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