So why would anyone tie up his net worth in a creaky 80-year-old mill?
In place of the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, there was a framed painting of an old mill beside a brown pond with two ducks.
It's called Atlantic Station, and it is built on the site of an old steel mill.
The project, at an old water mill at Neen Sollars, Shropshire hopes to generate power for 10 homes by May.
Fall River, Massachusetts, an old textile mill town, never recovered from its loss as a textile hub in the 1970s.
On a sunny day, the best table on the island is next to the little babbling waterfall on the patio at Le Moulin de St-Laurent, a 300-year-old flour mill with a menu that changes weekly depending on what local produce is available.
The European political class will not permit this - even though what is "undiscussable" in polite society is a statement of the numbingly obvious if you stroll through Amsterdam and Rotterdam, not to mention Antwerp, Clichy-sous-Bois, Malmo, or any old Yorkshire mill town.
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The development of a hundred and thirty-eight acres at the junction of two major interstates was a challenge because a hundred and fifty thousand tons of contaminated soil had to be removed before the project on the site of the old steel mill could even begin.
But the century-old Gorham paper mill is running again, under new owners, with 176 employees and plans to hire 48 more.
To get in an appropriately autumnal frame of mind then, plan a trip to Clyde's Cider Mill in Old Mystic.
"Usually when he barks or something in the middle of the night, he has to go to the bathroom, so I took him outside, " said Mr. Werner, a 56-year-old worker in a feed mill.
The 27-year-old accountant from Mauritius left her Mill Hill home in north London and found that signal failures were sending all Northern Line trains along the Bank branch, through King's Cross.
Indicators of swine flu are not unlike those for regular old run-of-the-mill flu.
"I could hear it and I was crying, " said 56-year-old Mike Johnson, a fourth-generation mill worker.
The old man worked as a guard at the mill, yet even he wanted honor from his family and dreamed of becoming renowned throughout the nation.
It used to be that migrant workers would come from the more rural areas of Brazil during harvest season and essentially live at the mill for the season, using the old slash-and-burn technique to harvest the sugarcane.
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Ellen Fenton from Quarry Bank Mill said the letters "detail poetically" the Greg family's love for six-year-old Emily, who died of scarlet fever.
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