Modeled after a waterwheel that powered a saw mill and grist mill at the colonial Chambers Fort, the wheel was installed in 1984 and became a downtown icon. It stopped turning in 2002 after a boy ...

A duo of artisan carpenters were there on a recent weekday, amid the unique tools and sawdust, working to restore the mill’s symmetrical, wooden waterwheel, a simple piece of technology that’s ...

[How To Make Everything] took one of the Master’s drawings from 1478 of a sawmill and tried to replicate ... A support structure holds a water wheel and a saw. There’s a crank mechanism ...

It was very hard to keep waiting," said Whiteman, recalling the three-year process to finally secure a $350,000 workforce unit at the new Waterwheel development off Saw Mill River Road.

The waterwheel’s restoration was celebrated ... crew and others with the parkway hauled the tree out of the woods to a sawmill operator in Blowing Rock. The project, which required additional ...

Later, the Historical Society plans to build a sawmill over the waterwheel. The mill is expected to cost $150,000 and will require further grant money. It should attract schoolchildren and ...