MillPictures.com - Pictures of Mills and Historic Mill Information

1. Site: North Powder Mill / Baker Mill & Grain | Oregon | Baker Co. | u/k
Watersource: Powder River
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=71

Frame mill is 30x55 foot, 3.5 story mill. In the late 1980's, it was operated as Baker Mill & Grain. The mill was gone in 2004.

2. SITE: Herbert Grist Mill | Oregon | Benton Co. | 1847-1850
Watersource: Beaver Creek, trib. to Mary's River
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=617

The site of the 1850 Herbert Grist Mill built by George & Elizabeth Herbert on Beaver Creek in the then community of Inavale, Oregon. This site is also commemorated as the place of the Inavale Post Office of 1893, operated by John & Mary Mitchell. More info needed.

3. Dave's Feed & Seed / Heritage House Parts, Inc | Oregon | Benton Co. | c. 1920's?
Watersource: Electricity
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1171

An old galvanized sheeting covered mill. Nothing for beauty, but was all designed for function. The words below the Larro logo state: Grinding, cleaning, mixing.

Today the mill has been put to an alternative use. What better than to be a supply house for parts for old home renovation. The mill carries many appliances such as tubs and sinks, moldings, trimwork from late 19th, early 20th century architechtural styles.

The printing on the corregated siding reads "Dave's Feed & Seed, some illegible words, hay & salt. Then the larger print: Crown Flour.

Crown Flour can also be read behind the Larro logo. The mill contains many large timbers and heavy wooden flooring. Need more info as to the historical working years of this early 20th century feed mill.

4. Howard's Grist Mill / Mulino Flour Mill | Oregon | Clackamas Co. | 1851
Watersource: Milk Cr., trib to Molalla River
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=67

Wood frame grist mill looks lot like a barn but it has a covered loading/unloading dock along the front side. It was built in 1851 by Charles Rutter Howard as a grist mill and also saw duty as a flour mill, since it was at times known as the Mulino Flour Mill. Charles' son, Bayne, joined his father in the running of the mill. **Info about father & son Howard provided by Ann Howard Wiley Breemer, the great granddaughter of Charles Howard-01/09/06**

The owners have historical papers dating back to before the Howard's arrival in Oregon. ***Update: Gary L. Rhea 06/13/05--A ledger on balance of accounts originally belonging to the Howard family of Mulino, Or. was sold at an estate sale in Auberry, Ca. recently documenting customers accounts starting in July 23, 1866 and continuing through 1873***

The loading/unloading dock under the front portion of the mill along Or 213. *Update: A buhr mill set that was originally used in this mill is currently in use at the Cedar Creek Grist Mill in Clark County Washington. Jeffrey Berry 01/19/2010*

The current owner's are Perry & Margaret Rider, who bought the mill after the 1st picture was taken, sometime after 1990. The renovated mill has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, a very nice piece of property on 4+ acres on Milk Creek, some parts of the property on both sides of the creek. *Update: The mill,renovated into a residence, is for sale now in May 2006 listed with Prudential Northwest Properties-Damascus, Ann O'Brian, Broker 503-704-1617 05/24/2006*

A view of the restored Grain warehouse across the road/Sh 213 from the mill, built in 1860 to store Eastern Oregon grain for the mill to process. It is reputed to be 150 years old and is renovated into a gift shop with an added expresso drive-thru booth in front. *Info about the curent owners of the mill courtesy of the Rider's daughter, Cheryl Rider. 09/28/2005*

5. Union Mills | Oregon | Clackamas Co. | 1877
Watersource: Milk Creek, trib. Molalla River.
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=68

A late operating mill in the east side of the Willamette Valley. Operating as of 1990 as a feed mill for local farmers and livestock owners. Was probably water powered early on, given its proximity to the Milk Creek, but later perhaps went the route of steam and finally electricity.

The mill is or was part of an Oregon Century Farm established in 1852. The mill was built in 1877 and the current farmhouse was built by Trollinger Friedrich in 1909. It has been in the same Friedrich family continuously since; and, is still currently owned and operated by Robert & Connie Friedrich today, December 7, 2005, and is located at 14822 S. Union Mills Road, Mulino, Oregon 97042.

**Update: A family owned and operated flour mill since 1877; specifically operating solely as a feed mill since the late 1930's, early 40's. Connie Friedrich 12/06/05**

The rear of the mill complex from the west, with the entrance lane to the Century Farm.

The front of the mill sructure looking from west to east.

6. Moore's Flour Mill / Bob's Red Mill | Oregon | Clackamas Co. | 1970`s /new mill and visitor center 2005
Watersource: Both new and old : electric powered
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=69

This is the new Bob's Red mill, opened in 2003 and located at 5000 International Way/Or 224 Expressway. The mill can't be missed by anyone traveling that road as it stands out like a sore thumb, a rather nice looking sore thumb.

Bob's Red Mill Brand products featuring stone ground techniques were processed and packaged here in this warehouse remodeled for that purpose. The plant burned in mid. '90s and was not rebuilt. Production however moved to a manufacturing facility off of the Milwaukie Bypass and is continuing to provide good "stone ground" products for consumers. The intermediate facility was near the new mill and was employed for about 10 years.

Closer view of the visitor center/retail outlet at the mill. The wheel is not merely for looks, but turns the mechanism and ultimaely a set of stones used for demonstration purposes to illustrate the old method of grinding with water power using grindstones.

A grindstone outside the mill utilized now as fountain. Various other millstone can be found both outside and in the visitor center / retail outlet.

Be sure to check the website at the top of this page to see all the products available. Better yet is a visit to the mill if you are close by.

7. Fischer's Mill | Oregon | Clackamas Co. | u/k
Watersource: Clear Creek & electricity
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=72

The Fischer's Mill store nearby would be a good source of info. for any interested party. The frame 20x40 foot mill was probably water powered (stream behind mill), but not in the recent past. Signs on the front of mill read Fischer's Mill and Triangle Feeds: for better results.

Not much known about the mill. Many frame additions to the mill which is not in very good repair. Crossing over the bridge, the road straight is S. RidgenRd/Funk Rd, while the right turn is S. Fischer's Mill Rd/Market Rd Eight.

8. Old Feed Mill | Oregon | Douglas Co. | Early 1900s
Watersource:
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1124

This old feed mill from around the turn of the 20th century was being used as the Hayseed Restaurant in the early 1990s.

The warehouse located almost across the street from the former mill.

9. Butte Creek Mill | Oregon | Jackson Co. | 1872
Watersource: Butte Creek
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=42

First called Snowy Butte Mill after Mt. McLoughlin (Snowy Butte or Mt. Pitt). Built by John Daley Jr. and A. Emery for John Daley Sr. in 1872. The mill's basement is where the water power is produced. The shaft seen in the next photo is directly connected to the nether stone on the floor above.

Peter and Nora Crandall took over the mill in 1972. A wide variety of grains and flours are processed and sold, along with other nutritional seeds, nuts, carob products, full-of-nutrition foodstuffs and snacks, and souvenirs and other items too numerous to mention. The mill was up for sale in late 2003-early 2004. Not sure if it is still on the market.

The big white buhrstones, weighing 1400 lbs. a piece, were quarried in France, milled in Illinois and shipped around the Horn to Cresent City, Ca. Then were carted by wagon over the Siskiyou Mountains to Eagle Point, Or. over 100 years ago.

A view of the west end of the mill. Little Butte Creek is down to the right, out of the picture. The mill is one of the first mills built in the Rogue River Valley and is the only one consistantly operating today. The beams were raised first, mortised and pinioned with hard wood pegs. Then the siding was whip-sawed and fastened with square nails or cut nails

This stone building across the street, one building to the east, was probably the first structure in Eagle Point and was definitely on the scene before the mill. It was used as a warehouse by the community.

10. Lane Co. Farmer's Union Cooperative / Down to Earth Home & Garden | Oregon | Lane Co. | 1923, additions 1932 & 1940, remodel 1977
Watersource: Electricity
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1170

The Lane Couny Farmer's Union Cooperative was built in 1923 primarily to process grain. As A cooperative, the mill was owned by families and built by the family owners with materials available, no loans being taken out. The small concrete block section in the photo was built to house a steam generated feed pelletizing system. The block room is now office space.

The years 1932 & 1940 saw two main additions built to the complex,but aside from no longer grinding grain, much is still same as it was when the mill was operating up into the early 70's.

Crown Feeds was the specialty of the cooperative. As of 1977, the former mill complex has been known as the Down to Earth Home & Garden Center. See the mills website for additional information.

The interior of the retail home & garden store still exhibits much of the old chutes and bucket elevators necessary to convey grain either up or down through the mill, with bag filling stations at various points. All this in cooperation with the current retail item displays.

Here, stuffed animals, and Monopoly spin-offs such as Beaveropoly, Duckopoly, and Gardenopoly share space with above belts pulleys and lineshafts which were necessary to make the milling operation successful.

The sign of Crown Feeds on the left tower and the Purina checkered logo on the higher tower.

A small book section sequestered between the sloping sides of wooden grain bins in the mills interior.

In 1953, the mill was sold to Lane County Feed & Seed. Additional bulk grain storage bins were built within the warehouse along the north wall, the long wall in the above photograph.

The 80'X 52' warehouse section was built in 1940 usinf salvaged materials from the old Lane County Courthouse, demolished the previous year.

11. Grain Millers Mill | Oregon | Lane Co. | 1986, using 1940's feed mill
Watersource: Electricity
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1328

Christian Kongsore Sr. of Seattle, began milling oats in 1986 in a converted feed mill on Madison Street in Eugene along the Southern Pacific Railroad in downtown Eugene.

Basicly, oats grown in soil, poor Western Canada are shipped by train to Eugene to be processed into cereal grains: flakes, flours, and brans.

Oats will grow fairly well in poor quality soil, thus the western provinces of Canada are idealy suited for raising oats.

The produce is shipped to food-producing locations in the western U.S. and Canada; places such as Nestle's, Orowheat,and Golden Temple-another Eugene based company. Some brilliant red maples

Traincars of oats are emptied into a pit, conveyed to the silo's upper reaches, then the processes of cleaning, classifiying, de-hulling, kilning(drying), and rolling(flattening) take place, utilizing gravity. All processing is manual, not chemical. The products: cereals, pancakes mixes, Scottish oatmeal, & flours and brans are packaged and shipped out to the tune of 140 tons/day.

12. Boston-Thompson Mill | Oregon | Linn Co. | Orig.-1856, Present-1866
Watersource: Calapooia River
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=41

The original mill on this site, although several other possible sites for earlier mills are nearby in the old Boston town platt, was built between 1856-58. The builders Finley, Crawford and Brandon named it Boston Mill after the growing community of which it was a part. A few houses of the old town still exist. The fire heart sickened the trio on October 25, 1862, having left nothing but charred ashes; however, it was soon rebuilt, from the ashes as it were, and back in operation by 1866. Soon after the rebuilding, Finley joined with an English miller named Simmons; eventually combining the strengths of several more of the Simmons family. Martin Thompson, a native of Germany, obtained the Finley interest of the mill in 1891 and became the sole owner in 1897; when he bought-out the Simmons family share of the mill. He soon converted, from using millstones to grind, to a roller operation using steel rollers. The end result was a vastly increased production.

This designed-on-site grain diverter in attic, diverted grain to various places within the mill for different processes to be rendered. Martin originally hailed from Hattstedt, a small hamlet a few miles north of Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He emigrated to America in 1870 initially to New York, then on to Benton Co. Iowa, where he became a farm laborer for other German immigrants. He married at this time and had a first daughter with his wife, Sophia. A stopover in Grand Island, Ne. resulted, in Martin and two brothers, Peter and August, along with Martin's family riding the rails westward to The Dalles, Or.

Crossing over to Washington, Martin built a grist mill up the White Salmon River in an area known as The Falls. He changed the name of the existing town and Post Office from Wilkinsheim to Husum in honor of his native area in Germany. Four sons joined the family at Husum, then it was on to Cascade Locks, Wash., Elmira, Glencoe (two more sons born)) Champoeg, Turner and lastly Boston (all these towns in Western Oregon. The sons born at Glencoe later returned to Husum and built an electric generating plant which a third son operated for some years.

Boston was a 1-2 miles east of the present town of Shedd, Or. Martin Thompson, a grandson of the 1891 & 1897 purchaser of Thompsons Mills, is still living and quite interested in thr preservation of old mills, the Thompson Mills in particular. The Boston Mill Society, a tax exempt organization, has been formed to try, through memberships, donations, Friends Groups and other methods to promote interest in the purchasing, from the current owners, the mill so that it can be restored and preserved for future generations for it's historic, educational and even nostalgic qualities. Late in 2004, the State of Oregon Parks & Recreation Dept. purchased the mill property with the object to restore it to an operating/educational historical park for all to enjoy.

Photos: **September 2003 Jim Miller**

13. Albany Custom Mill / Avery Grist Mill | Oregon | Linn Co. | 1866
Watersource: Santiam-Albany Canal, off S. Santaim River.
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=650

The 2.5 story frame mill was built primarily as a 30'X 40' warehouse; but in 1877, flour milling equipment was installed. In 1878, Mrs. E. R. Cheadle was listed as the proprietor of the Albany Custom Mill.

The mill consisted of one run of buhrs and a chopper mill and was capable of producing 60 barrels of flour/24 hour run. Miller, G. B. Erwin proclaimed the flour produced to be better than their competitors, of which there were several. The Magnolia Flouring Mills, Monteith & Sons' Flouring Mills/Albany City Mills, and the Portland Flouring Mills/Red Crown Mills. This view is of the north face of the restored mill from a viewing deck built out into the edgr of the Willamette River.

A sign under the west eave of the mill placed by the State of Oregon. The sign further states that the former mill production was 100 ballels/day, and that the mill was later the printing office of the Oregon Democrat for a few years at the turn of the 20th century. It was a ticket office for passenger trains and steamboat passage on the Willamette River. Later in the mid 1900's, a turkey shipping operation was centered around this building. It was renovated for office spaces in 1979.

Water was supplied from the South Santiam River via the Santiam/Albany Canal. The water had a fall of 22 feet from the source to the mill and turned a 13' Burnham waterwheel. The mill was said to have a capacity for 60,000 bushels of wheat storage. The Willamettte River with US 20 east and west bridges visible in photo taken from the deckwalk that extends out into the shallows of the rivers edge.

**Photos: July 30, 2005 Jim Miller**

14. Elkins Flour Mill / Lebanon Flour Mill | Oregon | Linn Co. | 1871
Watersource: Santiam/Albany Canal-possibly steam later
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=651

The frame 30'X 40' three story grist/flour mill was built from 1862-1878, by millwright Thomas J. Hannah for William & Joseph Elkins, using heavy hand-hewn timbers employing the mortise and tenon technique fastened with wooden pegs at the joints. The mill is sided with shiplap siding with vertical siding along the ground/water table level.

By 1875, proprietors, Joseph & William Elkins, were producing 160 barrels of flour/day. The Elkins Bros. were backers of the Willammette Valley & Cascade Mountain Wagon Road, the canal system, and railroading enterprises.

Some early millers were James Cowan, John Little, Jonathan Wassom, Luther Elkins, and Richard Creadle. Wassom 55 and his wife, Ruth, 53 and their two sons, W.R.Wassom, a 23 year old farmer, and O.A.Wassom 20, were from Pennsylvania.

Mary Kees 67, a sister-in-law to Wassom, and Philip Linebarger, a boarder from New York, lived with them.

Luther Elkins, a retired 71 year old Maine farmer, had a son Joseph 47 who was also a flour miller. Richard Cheadle, a 50 year old miller from Ohio, and his 45 year old wife, Louisa, had 3 sons and 4 daughters, between the ages of 28 and 3 years.

The mill was purchased some time in the 1994, along with the land belonging to it, by Linn-Benton Community College as a site to build a Lebanon center of the college.

The Lebanon Center and the East Linn Workforce Development Center Complex were built in 2003 with 44,000 square feet of classroom and office space for the LBCC Lebanon Center, DHS Community Human Services, the Oregon Employment Dept, and the Community Services Consortium.

A 2,500 square foot Annex was also built as a visitor center for the restored mill featuring rest room facilities, a kichen and several meeting rooms.

The Annex also contains an area of displays featuring the mill next door that LBCC exteriorally restored also in 2003 as part of the complex. Kudos to LBCC.

*Update: The mill has been stabilized and exterior windows, doors, etc. replaced. The mill has been painted and a more secure access provided. The interior is essentially empty. Martin Thompson 02/03/2008*

15. Peoria Seed Cleaning Mill | Oregon | Linn Co. | c.1880-1900
Watersource: Electricity
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1320

The town of Peoria is located at the confluence of the Willamette River and the Albany Channel. At some time the townsite was moved from an earlier site about a mile south where Lake Creek flows into the Willamette.

The larger mill section was removed in the early to mid 1990's. The portion left is a residence, but some efforts were made to do some grinding of wheat into flour; but, perhaps not after the majority of the mill was torn away.

The town got its name from Peoria, Illinois. It was here in winter of 1839-1840, that Oregon's Curcuit riding preacher, Jason Lee, gave talks to get recruits to go west to The Willamette Valley of Oregon to further the Methodist Mission and top create American settlements.

16. Scroggin's Feed & Seed | Oregon | Linn Co. | 1881
Watersource: Electricity
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1321

The mill/warehouse was built in 1881 along the RR tracks and on RR property in Lebanon, Or.

In 1883, John Settle leased the warehouse and it became known as the Lebanon Warehouse. Looking at the southwest corner of the mill.

Ralph Scroggin leased the mill during the mid-latter part of the last century. Eventually the mill became the Fairway Feed and Seed.

A view of the northwest corner of the mill property. For many years, the mill was leased by Ralph Scroggin. The ware house had a capacity for 60,000 bushels of grain.

The northeast corner of the mill. The lower building in the foreground was added about the 1930's, when the mill became more of a feed store. The corner of the mill, white painted portion, has two Pacific Fruit Express 1912-1913 wooden, refrigerated railcars hidden within the enclosed walls. They were enclosed within the building in 1937 to use as insulated cols storga for dressed turkeys, a successful side business carried on at Scroggin's Mill in the mid-1900's. The rail cars are perhaps the best preserved examples of such in country.

Farmway Feed and Seed, the name the mill was known by in the later half of the 1900's, particularly from the 1960's on until it closed.

The Santiam Travel Station, with Scroggin's Mill in the background. The city council meets within the walls of the old restored depot.

The old restored warehouse across Grant Street from the mill block perhaps was used for feed, grain, or hay storage by Scroggin in the last half of the 20th century.

This house at the southwest corner of Grant and S. Fifth Street is the Stewart-Sterling house, built in 1893. It surely saw almost all the happenings during the operating years of Scroggin's Mill.

Diagonally northwest of the mill, east of the tracks and on the north side of W. Ash St. is the comodious dwelling of P.M. Scroggin. The fanciful, Victorian home, built in 1900, even features a large ornamental horseshoe as trim on the upper front porch.

17. Scio Feed Mill / Scio Feed & Country Store | Oregon | Linn Co. | u/n
Watersource: Electricity
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1322

The Country store/feed mill is about equally feed store and country store, including many craft and nick-nack items. This is the country store where "Big Red" was so cruelly attacked and killed by a dog which jumped from the open window of a customer's parked car just a few months after these photos were taken. The Rhode Island Red rooster had taken up residence in Scio at the Mill & Country Store about 8 years before, and had become a great favorite of the townsfolk. He achieved national attention, CNN and Fow News, because of his habits and lifestyle. He has been sorely missed.

The mill may has been water-powered at one time, as Thomas Creek runs right behind the buildings, but it was probably always electrically powered. The owners in 2006 were Audie & Marian Heikkila.

The mill grinding section seems to be closed and not operating, but feeds of all kinds are still sold from the mill portion of the country store. The highest part of the steel clad mill structure bears a hardly ledgible sign: Swift Feeds.

On back S. Fourth Ave. is the West Scio Train Depot, moved to Scio and installed in a small park just behind the old mill/country store.

18. Aurora Roller Mills/Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage | Oregon | Marion Co. | c. 1870's
Watersource: Mill Creek and/or Pudding River.
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1319

The Aurora Mills Architectural Salvage at Main Street NE and 1rst Street NE in Aurora, Or.

The mill lies along the Southern Pacific Rail Road right-of-way.

Some old warehouse sheds probably used during the days of roller milling.

Quite a collage of architectural styles and types of siding.

This vintage photograph of the mill about the early 1900's. The name of J.D. Hurst & Son is lettered on the side of the mill.

Several composite burrstones possibly used in the mill in the 1890's through the 1930's.

The sign is hard to read and excepting for the uppermost line it reads: Clover and Vetch Seed Cleaning, State No. 256.

Some of the bits of antique type items to be found inside the old mill.

The upper part of part of the mill contained chairs, stainedglass windows, all sorts of windows, decorative spindles, and victorian trim pieces used to spice up a victorian house.

The mill comlex for hops, feed, and seed cleaning dating to c. 1890. Would like some more history concerning the mill.

19. Thomas Kay Woolen Mills / Mission Mill Museum | Oregon | Marion Co. | 1889, closed in 1962
Watersource: Mill Creek via millrace
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1324

The Wool Warehouse building that now serves as the museum entrance, houses gift shops, and contains the Salem's Visiter Center.

The opposite side of the Wool Warehouse building inside the mill museum complex. The old wool warehouse also houses The Mission Mill Cafe, great for lunches and teas.

Some type of gear-driven cloth washer.

Wool carding machine. Carding the wool takes out the tangles. The wool fibers are combed with long metal prongs attached to rollers that straighten tangles and remove dirt and other impurities.

Another type of machine to wash the cloth, the prongs would cycle in one direction pulling the cloth along, raise up, occilate back, dip down and repeat the process, moving the cloth along through the vat of washing solution.

Woolen fabrics are washed with friction, heat and soap in this type of rotary fuller, which shrinks the woolen garment during production, tightening the weave, making a "fuller",stronger fabric.

A photo from 1983 of the Thomas Kay Woolen Mills main building. The 35mm film was one that emphasized the blues and greens, making it extremely difficult to get it back to normal colors. New photos will be coming shortly to replace this one.

Bevel gearing that tranfers the direction of the power from the turbine to a horzontal shaft, to power the equipment at the mill. Notice the teeth (splines) on the vertical gear connected to a horizontal shaft are wood, easily replacable. Usually on half of a gearing mesh or union would have replacable teeth, rather than replacing the costly entire gear end. Also, the wear would be on the gear flange containing the wooden teeth, making for less expensive repairs.

The millrace, headrace as it approaches the mill main building where wool processing, carding, combing, spinning, weaving, preshrinking, and dying were all carried out. The smaller building visible beyond the race, on the left, is the Dye House. The building on the right is the Menser Machine Shop, still working today. The machine shop kept the machinery in repair and actually made parts to replace wore and broken parts of machinery. Millwrights worked here to keep the production lines moving and operating to schedule.

The Dye house and the Water Power Exhibit Building frame the larger main mill structure. The photo was taken from the porch of the Parsonage

The south side of the mill structure looking towards the west. Contractors were busy refurbishing the brickwork of the building in 2006.

20. Albers Brothers Milling Co | Oregon | Multnomah Co. | Orig. mill 1893, present mill 1908-1918
Watersource: Steam & electricity.
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=592

The original mill was downtown on Front St. near Main and Salmon Sts. The opening of the new mill, above, in 1911 just north of the west end of the Broadway Bridge/Or 99W, saw the wheat industry in Oregon at the peak of a boom that began in 1885; when, the railroads arrival brought immeasurable amount of wheat to the Portland shipping docks from Central and Eastern Oregon growing slopes.

From the Portland location, the wheat could be milled and shipped out to virtually any destination in the world. One of the brands of flour milled was called Peacock Flour. The photo above is of a placque of the mill and a description of its history. In 1893, Bernard Albers of Lingen, Germany, at age 29, built his first mill on Front St. near Main and Salmon Sts. just north of the present west end of the Hawthorne Bridge over the Willamette River. He was soon joined by his younger brothers William, Henry, George, and Frank. Between 1908 and 1918 saw expansion of the 360,000 sq. ft. new mill to eventually include over 1 million sq.ft. of mill operation.

Then photo above shows the 1893 plant with later added storage silos decorated with Albers Products. Wheat prices fell badly, some 65%, following WWI. Growing wheat was almost cost inefficient. The Carnation Company assumed control of operations at Albers in 1929, and by the year 1940, production had been switched to animal feeds. This last feed operation ceased completely in 1983, a run of about 43 years, not bad considering its location in a large city.

The wheat indusrty had a slight revival in the 1980's as 35% of the wheat exports from the United States originated in the Columbia Basin area. The renovated mill is now the home to agencies involved in planning for the wheat industry of the future. So! the mill is not yet dead. It still has a hand in determining the wheat industry's future in the Northwest.

21. Dallas Feed & Seed, Inc / Old Mill Feed & Garden | Oregon | Polk Co. | u/k
Watersource: Electric or steam
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=863

A large frame mill structure located just 4 blocks from the county courthouse.

The Dallas Feed & Seed, Inc shares facilities with a Garden Supply business and a Farrier, a blacksmith/ horseshoer, and a antiques/collectables store named New 4 You.

It is still being operated as a feed mill, supplying local farmers with livestock feed and seeds for planting.

The large mill looks to have had some of its structure torn away on the back side toward the railroad siding.

The mill with the weigh scale and scale house to the left foreground. More info requested from those who might like to share.

*Update: The current owners are retiring. My wife and I plan to renovate the Dallas Feed & Seed building as an independent feed and garden business, Old Mill Feed & Garden, opening in July of this year, 2007. The equipment will be shut down, but left in place for posterity. The biggest issue is the roof, which will be replaced in sections as we are able. The worst section of roof will be replaced this summer. We are removing a porch which was added on after the time of your photos. We're installing a canvas awning the full length of the loading dock. The building has operated as a feed store for 90 years, we hope our repairs prepare it to last another 90*

22. Pendleton Roller Mills / Pendleton Flour Mill | Oregon | Umatilla Co. | u/k
Watersource: Electricity
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1323

The mill entrance as it looked in 1989.

The same entrance on 2004. Not too much changed except the scope and enormity of the operation.

Very nice sign across the street of the mill complex.

A bustling enterprise in Pendleton, marking about 100 years of operation.

23. Site: Union Flour Mill | Oregon | Union Co. | Late 1800s
Watersource: Catherine Creek.
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1122

The mill was revisited in July 2004, but the mill had been torn away about the year 2000.

24. Banton Tool Shop | Oregon | Union Co. | 1911
Watersource: small stream, non-operating
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=1123

The water-powered tool shop was moved from a site near here. Built in 1911 and operated by William N. Banton, a prominent rancher, whose holdings included this wayside at one time.

The area was settled by he and his parents, names listed on the plaque, pioneers from Missouri in 1868, when William was 2 years old.

William used the water-driven tool shop to fashon tools & implements needed for operating his livestock ranch. He continued improvements until he retired in 1940. His life spanned from 1866-1945. The waterwheel is kept inside the cabin during the harshest months of the winter.

25. White River Hydroelectric Powerplant | Oregon | Wasco Co. | 1910-1960
Watersource: White River.
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=799

In the early 1900's, farmers living in the local area put the White River Falls to creative use when they established a water-powered grist mill at the falls.

Though the grist mill did not survive the ravages of the entire 20th century, it was successful enough to lead to the construction of the hydroelectric powerplant in the canyon below the falls about a decade after the inception of the grist mill.

The diversion pond that siphoned the water from the top of the falls. The water was let out of the reservior by means of gates, then it flowed through 3'-4' diameter banded wooden stave pipe to the plant. Bends were accomplished with riveted steel sections forming the turns.

Generator shells still in the powerplant, which closed from providing power to Wasco and Sherman Counties in 1960 after 50 years of service.

Much of the original building is still intact, as are some sections of the penstock pipe cornerings and a little wood stave section attached to steel flanges. The White River Canyon is extremely wild and turbulent. Care is needed when hiking around the surging stream and falls. The entire complex is administered by the Oregon State Parks.

26. Chehalem Valley Mills | Oregon | Yamhill Co. | c. 1900
Watersource: n/a: steam & electric powered
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=70

Additional storage and separator bins had been built over the years. Dates and history are not known at this time. Part of the building is a western tack/feed store combination. Another part had been a used book store/exchange recently. The original building is about 30x40 foot, 3 stories in height of frame construction.

Watercolor by Richard Lawlor. Watercolor print used with permission from Sue Ellen Widbey 08/09/2005. Contact sewhidbey@gmail.com for purchase information. Copyright (c), 2005, estate of Richard Lawlor.

A photo to compare the difference in the mill with repairs and new coats of white paint.

The mill with the steel sided addition to the mill in the form of warehouse space to store feeds and to ship and receive goods required for production right from the railroad siding beside the structure.

A better view of the railroad siding alongside the warehouse.

The freight elevator used to raise and lower sacks of feed and other comodities from one floor to another inside the mill.

The actual pulley & cable mechanism used to raise and lower the hoist/elevator. *Update: Stacey Arnold's grandfather now owns the mill and her father is renovating the structure in 2008*

The truck scale on the south side of the mill for weighing empty and full loads. The truck weight is the tare; subtracted from the total weight equals the net weight of product.

27. Madson Grain Company | Oregon | Yamhill Co. | u/k
Watersource:
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=437

Large turn-of-the-century mill in Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon. Need more information on this one.

Loading and unloading docks of the mill. A busy hub of a working mill.

A view of the backside of the milling structures. The Madson Grain Co., was still open and doing busines in 2004.

The office to the Madson Grain Company, probably one of the oldest buildings in the complex.

Advertising on the side of warehouse at Madson Grain Co., featuring Moor Man's and Topmost Feeds.

28. Old Yamhill Feed Mill | Oregon | Yamhill Co. | u/k
Watersource: Electric or steam
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=438

Old feed mill structure in Yamhill now being used as an import facility called, J. D. Steev's Imports & Ant1que Flea Market.

Need more and accurate info. on this structure.

29. Valley Feed & Supply / Houck's Mill | Oregon | Yamhill Co. | 1930's-40's
Watersource: None-electricity
Link: http://millpictures.com/Mills/details.cfm?millid=440

This large frame feed mill structure, in a town that had several flour mills early in its history, was also known as Houcks Mill built in 1908.

Interior of the left part of the 2.5 story mill section is a farm supply store.

Photos inside the main mill building, the first floor, hanging along the massive support beams.

The mill was at one time, probably in the late 1970's and into the early 1990's, the Buchanon Cellars.

The Buchanon Cellars was a winey in the area and the old mill structures were the headquarters, tasting room, and storage cellars for the winery.

Today, it is again a feed mill/farm supply store.

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