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Penman’s No. 1 Mill, 1874

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vintage picture of penman's mill

It was the first of two large textile mills built by Paris industrialist John Penman. Dependent on waterpower, in the beginning, a generating plant still stands behind the mill buildings on the bank of the Nith River.

The building is the National Historic Site of Canada.

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