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"...Both cotton mills and woolen mills operated during the 19th century. The wool industry reached its peak between 1820 and 1840, though farmers continued to raise sheep until the 20th century.[4] On the Hoosic River in North Pownal, an 18th-century gristmill was replaced by a woolen mill that operated from 1849 until 1863, when it burned. The Plunkett & Barber Co. Mill, built in 1866, served as a cotton mill until 1930, becoming a tannery in 1937. It closed in 1988. Remediated as a Superfund site, the mill site is planned to become a recreation area.
During the early part of the 20th century, Lewis Hine documented child labor in the mills. His photograph of twelve-year-old Addie Card, entitled "Anemic Little Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill, North Pownal, Vermont, August 1910", was featured on the U.S. stamp[10] commemorating the passage of the first child labor laws (see the Keating–Owen Act). Elizabeth Winthrop has written a novel, Counting on Grace,[11] inspired by Addie's photograph and life."... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownal,_Vermont
"...Rebuilt in the 1950s, the Pownal dam powered the Pownal Tannery (although various structures have been there since the original mill in the 1880s). The Pownal Tannery went bankrupt in 1988 and the town reluctantly took control of the hydro facility. Many developers have looked at developing the site but environmental contamination in the form of polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs in the sediment behind the dam made the project unfeasible even with Environmental Protection Agency brownfield grants.
The Pownal project is the second dam renovation Scully has undertaken. The first was the Vermont Tissue Dam in North Bennington. That dam went online in 2015 and has a capacity of 360kW. Redeveloping the Tissue Dam required the removal of PCBs, dioxin and lead in the sediment that had accumulated behind the dam as well as a new license. Scully credits that more complicated experience as important to helping him renovate the Pownal Dam which also required the removal of PCBs and an amended exemption from licensing...."... - https://www.vtenergydashboard.org/stories/hydropower-at-historic-pownal-dam
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