Photo: Marker designating Watkins Mill as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark

Photographer: Tony Meyers
Taken: August 15, 2011
Caption: Marker designating Watkins Mill as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark
Additional Description: National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark 1861 – C.A. 1890. The Watkins Woolen Mill is among the best preserved examples of a mid-19th century woolen mill in the United States. It’s variety of machinery for preparing, spinning, and weaving—some of it modified during its life at the mill to improve its performance—presents an unsurpassed cross-section of textile technology at that time and is the finest collection of early textile machines in situ in North America. The mill was designed and built by Waltus L. Watkins (1806-1884), a machinist and master weaver from Frankfort, Kentucky. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers - 1980
Submitted: August 15, 2011, by Tony Meyers of Liberty, Missouri.
Database Locator Identification Number: p167891
File Size: 0.476 Megabytes

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