Amboy Flour Mill

Mill Details

Webster Co. | Nebraska | USA

Known Dates: 1915, replaced 1876 mill that burned.

Township: n/a
Watersource: Elm Creek, trib. Republican River.

Location / Directions

Amboy Flour Mill

Located 4.5 miles east of Red Cloud, Nebraska on US 136 at the Burlington Northern RR tracks and Elm Creek. The mill is about 150 yards north of US 136 between the tracks and the creek.

Verse for Thought

"You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you."

({John 15:16 NKJV})

Jim Miller 08/03/2004

This water powered flour mill was built of concrete in 1915 to replace an earlier 1876 flour mill that burned the year before.

Jim Miller 08/03/2004

The south side of the mill with some hay bales stored on the ground around the mill. Elm Creek is off to the right and the Burlington Northern RR tracks are on the immediate left.

Jim Miller 08/03/2004

Photo depicting the roof, which is also concrete, of the mill to the right of center. Most notable is the continuous row of swallows nests under the eave of the roof.

Jim Miller 08/03/2004

This is the south side of the cupola or elevator extension of the mill. The word 'Amboy' can be seen plainly, while the others have worn off from the effects of rain and sun.

Jim Miller 08/03/2004

Flour production ceased in the 1940's and the building is vacant today.

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