Slowly but surely, the Town of Arkwright’s building projects are still moving forward. At the most recent meeting of the Town ...

Submitted photo ARKWRIGHT — 180 years is a long time for a farm to be ... and the main pond on the farm — originally known as Sessions Mill Pond but now known as Black’s Pond — hosted the first Girl ...

Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, in 1771. He is regarded as the founder of the Factory Age. By 1783 Arkwight was rich enough to build a huge new mill ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machinesRichard Arkwright was a barber & wig maker in Bolton around 1750 where he ...

Demonstrating that modern technology can work effectively and in tandem with older buildings, Cromford Mills has reintroduced ...

The modern factory owes its origins to the mills at Cromford, where Richard Arkwright's inventions were first put into industrial-scale production. The workers' housing associated with this and the ...

Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, in 1771. He is regarded as the founder of the Factory Age. By 1783 Arkwight was rich enough to build a huge new mill ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machinesRichard Arkwright was a barber & wig maker in Bolton around 1750 where he ...