The La Valle Roller Mills on the bank of the Baraboo River at 211 W. Main Streetin La Valle.

J.F. Sanford added the grist mill, which ran three runs of grindstones, to his already existing flour-barrel manufacturing plant(1864) and saw mill, in 1869.

Bar screen over the inlet that was located behind the dam breast prior to the dams removal about 1992. In 1874, the mill was taken on lease for 19 months by Teodore Yager. He then went to Reedsburg to run a mill for one year, then returned to the La Valle Mill, where in partnershhip with J.N. Nye, they bought the mill. Lyman Beery bought Nye's interest in 1878; so Beery & Yager, manufactures of flour & feed, produced La Valle Mills Choice Winter Flour to the tune of seventy barrels/day.

The level of the flood level of June 9, 2008, the same time period when excessively heavy rains of long duration triggered the waters of Lake Delton, located about 16-18 miles east on the Wisconsin River, to empty out through the bottom of the lake in about three hours time to cause flood conditions further downstream. See Harbor Point Mill, Lake Delton, Sauk Co., Wisconsin for more info about flood there.

View outside looking at the front of the mill with flood waters swirreling down Main Street on June 9, 2008.

A diesel engine was purchased to supplement the waterpower generated electricity in 1927. Joseph died in 1934, and left the mill and half the power plant to his son Victor and the other half of power plant to son, Bill. The photo shows the fire that destroyed the mill in 1937. The $25,000 fire was believed to have been initiated by a spark from the generator.

Some large gearing in the mill. The large horizontal gear is powered by the turbine. The small wheel/handle opens and closes the louvers in the turbine, causing the gearing to move faster or slower. The large gear has replaceable wooden teeth to minimize costs when the gears teeth wear down, the whole gear does not have to be replaced.

The mill was sold in 1998 to Michael & Jody Cummings. They spent long hours and months turning the old mill, with its massive exposed beams, wooden grain chutes, old scales and beatifully polished hardwood floors-polished by sacks of feed, flour and loose flour to an ultra smooth finish, into a antique emporium. Michael, a dairy farmer, said the cows were for sale,but he would continue to raise crops.

Another section of the mill, utilizing space for antiques, while keeping much of the equipment used during the mills operating days. The large metal bin is part of a feed mixing station.

Photo from a Times Press Feature article about the mill by Norman Couture, August 12, 1973. The photo shows the mill, before the 1937 fire,in 1908.

The rebuilt mill as portrayed by artist, Gordon Glass in 1992, when the mill dam was still extant. The present emporium is called The Treasure Mill.