The Williams post office was established in 1876. Byrd E. Williams was an early postmaster. Williams was platted in 1889. From 1910 to 1911, Williams Dam was being built on the East Fork of the White River. It was finally opened in 1913, giving electricity to stone industries in the region. The dam did this for almost four decades until being decommissioned in the 1950s. Almost 60 years later, Free Flow Power Corp., a startup company from Boston, looked into recommissioning the dam, giving the area a renewable energy power. The corporation planned to spend over $12 million by installing turbines on the plant. That plan was abandoned in 2018.
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The Williams history, tracing the descendants in America of Robert Williams of Ruthin, North Wales, who settled in Carteret County, North Carolina, in 17631921Read the page →
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Among the customers of Great Grandfathei' Robert Williams at his store of general merchandise in connection with the grist mill that he first operated near Beaufort was a man named Jonas Linch. Apparently Jonas had a saw mill, possibly located on the same place as the present saw mill now occupying the opposite end of the dam from the old grist mill of
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suburbs of the town of Paris — the boundary line in fact passed near the farm. At thii farm, while Joseph Williams was constructing a wooden bridge, he met and courted Sarah Wright Mitchell, and they were mari'ied June 18, 1835. As no other kinds were built in those days but wooden bridges and stone bridges, we here present half-tones of the bridge about
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