Mill Details

Columbia Center Mill

Garfield Co. | Washington | USA
Known Dates: 1877
Township: n/a
Watersource: Pataha Creek.
Location / Directions

Columbia Center Mill

Located on the Columbia Center/Peola Rd. about 13 miles south of Pomeroy on US 12 about 33 miles W of Clarkston, Wa.

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Columbia Center Mill
Jim Miller 08/1989

The wooden frame mill of smaller proportions was moved from it original location on Pataha Creek in 1940. Additional sheds were built onto it to make a hay barn for a ranch.

Columbia Center Mill
Jim Miller 08/1989

Operated with water power using a wooden waterwheel and one set of 36" millstones. One of the stones, the nether stone, is in the Garfield Co. Museum. Operation lasted only about 10 years, a competition was too great from larger mills in the locality.

 
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