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**