Mill Details

H.A. Barret & Son Mill

Clinton Co. | Ohio | USA
Known Dates: Pre 1881
Township: Union Twp.
Watersource: Steam power, then electricity.
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H.A. Barret & Son Mill

Located at 320 E. Sugartree St., east of Walnut Street., Wilmington, Ohio.

Verse for Thought
When darkness seems to hide His face, I rest in His unchanging grace. In ev'ry high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the vail. "The Solid Rock" by Edward Mote 1797-1874
({From the Nazarene hymnal - Sing to the Lord})
H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

In 1881, the mill was run by a steam engine. In 1912 the mill went bankrupt.

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

In the 1970's it was a being used as a feed mill. In 1994 it was purchased and refurbished, and in 1995, it was opened to house shoppes.

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

The street in the forground is Grant Street, which meets E. Sugartree St. just to the right of the photo.

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

Storage shed behind the mill along the tracks was used to make barrewls at one time.

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

The mill is an antique emporium today. Notice the faded lettering, above the antique sign, that read: A. H. Barret & Son. Above that is a smaller script, saying "CHECK R-MIX".

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

Inside the Old Mill Antiques emporium.

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

Looking at the original exterior wall, now enclosed as part of the mill. Notice the reinforcing bolts threaded through the star shaped nuts.

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

Some charred structural timbers left as they were after a fire in 1947, that caused some damage to the mill structure. The outside of one of the grain bins is seem on the right, built of tightly nailed two X fours.

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

Two grain bins used for grain storage. The grain was kept here prior to mixing as part of a livestock feed ration.

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

A series of grain pipes radiating from a central hopper. Grain was elevated by bucket elevators or perhaps later by forced air pressure to the top central hopper, then small gates or shunts closed or opened the appropriate pipe/tubing to relocate the grain to the desired location to be mixed into a formulation of livestock feed.

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

A small Fairbanks Morse scale used to weigh a handtruck/feedcart piled up with 1-4 bags of feed.

H.A. Barret & Son Mill
Robert T. Kinsey 05/14/2011

All photos taken by Robert T. Kinsey on 05/14/2011. GPS:39° 26.62'N, 83° 49.39'W 1,033'/315 meters Wilmington Quadrangle

 
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