Harbor Point Mill
Sauk Co. | Wisconsin | USA
Watersource: Dell Creek, when operating, later Lake Delton.
Harbor Point Mill
From I-94, take the US 12 exit, Lake Delton, and go north on US 12/Wisconsin Dells Pkwy until it meets with Wi 23 at a traffic light. Turn right, still on US 12, and make another right onto E. Adams St. Continue on E. Adams for a couple blocks to Sarrington Road on the left. Drive back Sarrington Road a couple blocks to the mill at the end of the road.
An unknown name mill at the end of Sarrington Road at Harbor Point on the Lake Delton shoreline in the community of Lake Delton just about 1.5 miles SW of Wisconsin Dells.
The front of the mill is constructed of cut sandstone while the sides and rear of the main mill building is more likely of rubblestone construction.
Some additions to the former feed mill have been converted into an apartment complex named Harbor Point Apartments. [Click on the website link above the first photo, then click on the slideshow link entitled: see viewer's photos of Lake Delton Flooding (Vol 2) see pictures #6 & #23.]
The date 1920 is engraved into the door lintel of the main mill structure. An additional rectangular grain storage silo of concrete is built onto to the left of the mill front.
The edge of Lake Delton is on the bottom left part of the photo. The man-made lake from the 1920's, very popular as a resort lake with much water skiing, even some special commercial water skiing shows that attracted thousands of tourists yearly, emptied very suddenly about 1.5 months before these photos were taken.
The 267 acre lake suddenly drained out through an underground fissure or chasm after several days of heavy rainfall. The resultant draining caused a wave that damaged and destroyed many lakeshore homes, washed out highways and inundated the town of Gays Mills, about 60 miles south, with 6' to 8' of floodwater for the second time in ten months, along with other towns downstream along the Wisconsin River.