| 11. | Small dammed the creek on his rural property, to harness the waterpower for a sawmill.
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| 12. | Perhaps the most controversial provision of the Bowen bill concerns how the waterpower system will be valued.
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| 13. | An abundance of waterpower and difficulty of transportation made mills important in the settling of the new land.
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| 14. | The natural resources included extensive iron ore deposits, hardwood, high-grade limestone, and waterpower.
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| 15. | As industrialization began in the 19th century, factories joined the mills in tapping the Fishkill for waterpower.
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| 16. | The Lower Mill Pond was created in 1836 to provide waterpower for the various types of mills and factories.
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| 17. | The mills used 300, 000 hp of power, of which 18, 500 was generated by waterpower.
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| 18. | In 1810, Elisha Cheney moved his clock-making shop to the next waterpower site upstream from North.
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| 19. | Steele was educated in Salisbury, and at age 14 was apprenticed as a weave cotton cloth by waterpower.
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| 20. | Rivers, streams and ponds were dammed to furnish waterpower for gristmills, tanneries, and later paper mills.
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