mills – sunrise in a small city

sluicing

falling water engines
weirs races
wood iron turning
washed silted
removed
disassembled
inspected
idle
reassemble perpetual

urban stream at sunrise — (in 1917 one of several mill races along gywnns falls was converted to a walking path starting near frederick avenue)

from slater the traitor

picking, carding, drawing, roving, spinning,
dressing, warping
at the speed of the falls and allegheny steam.
weaving webs across oceans

cotton mill at sunrise — (the washington cotton manufacturing company incorporated in 1809, operating on smith avenue)

first steam mill

eighty bushels per hour
no hands oliver evans system
superfine flour.
the millers weren’t yet alarmed.
certain individuals cornered coal

aquarium at sunrise — (a steam-powered mill began operating on the pier at the end of gay street in 1814)