Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Summary
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American industrial development and they now serve as an interesting case study which documents that development.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-8
Survey number: HAER DE-14
Building/structure dates: 1846 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1849 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1858 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1874 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1877 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1881 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1884 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1893 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1896 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78000913, 80004486
Steam Machines, Engines, Locomotives. In 1781 James Watt patented a steam engine that produced continuous rotary motion. Watt's ten-horsepower engines enabled a wide range of manufacturing machinery to be powered. The engines could be sited anywhere that water and coal or wood fuel could be obtained. By 1883, engines that could provide 10,000 hp had become feasible. The steam engine was one of the most important technologies of the Industrial Revolution.
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