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The sound of water tumbling over an 18th-century mill wheel only adds to the bucolic allure of a 2,000-plus-acre horse farm in New York‘s scenic Hudson Valley that just hit the market for an eye-popping $90 million.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
Another familiar location is the Sanderson home (complete with the mill wheel on the side) which has gone from being hidden away in the woods to sitting on a bustling city street thanks to urban development in Salem.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 June 2022
Meadow Branch Creek runs from northeast to southwest through the property, providing the stream of water that drove the mill wheel.
—Madison Bateman, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2022
Conquest was the mill wheel of the early medieval world.
—Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
Water turning a mill wheel, serving nothing but artifice.
—Richie Hofmann, The New York Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2021
The channel will feature a variety of mill wheels, lock gates, flaps, forks and collecting areas for visitors to manipulate and explore.
—Aegis Staff Report, baltimoresun.com, 22 Nov. 2019
The net effect is to enhance the diversity and abundance of pests, thus driving the pesticide mill wheel.
—Debal Deb, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
Another familiar location is the Sanderson home (complete with the mill wheel on the side) which has gone from being hidden away in the woods to sitting on a bustling city street thanks to urban development in Salem.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 June 2022
Meadow Branch Creek runs from northeast to southwest through the property, providing the stream of water that drove the mill wheel.
—Madison Bateman, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2022
Conquest was the mill wheel of the early medieval world.
—Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
Water turning a mill wheel, serving nothing but artifice.
—Richie Hofmann, The New York Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2021
The channel will feature a variety of mill wheels, lock gates, flaps, forks and collecting areas for visitors to manipulate and explore.
—Aegis Staff Report, baltimoresun.com, 22 Nov. 2019
The net effect is to enhance the diversity and abundance of pests, thus driving the pesticide mill wheel.
—Debal Deb, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
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“Mill wheel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mill%20wheel. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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