Construction workers were busy Wednesday morning preparing the large waterwheel's mooring in a concrete channel next to the Saw Mill River at New Main Street. The installation is the latest ...

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.

[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 ...

The year 1843 saw London millwright William Crate build another sawmill closer to the falls. A 10-foot-wide and 16-foot-diameter waterwheel drove 12 saws around the clock. The Gold Rush sucked ...

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 ...