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4 unusual facts about Mill race


Lowell National Historical Park

A walkway along the river leads to several additional unrestored mill sites, providing views of restored and unrestored canal raceways once used by the mills.

Rosmersholm

Rosmer then asks Rebecca to prove her devotion to him by committing suicide the same way his former wife did--by jumping into the mill-race.

Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures

Hamilton commissioned civil engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant, responsible for the layout of the new capital at Washington, D.C. to design the system of canals known as raceways suppylings the power for the watermills in the new town.

William Augustus Mills

He helped finance the first dam along the Genesee River in 1833 and built the raceway from the river to the village of Mount Morris for water power.



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Narborough Watermill

There is a horizontal mainshaft that once drove 6 pairs of stones, although there are only five that now survive.The mill race still flows through under the building.