The structure was never a mill, although it has several doors vertical in the front, topped off with a catshead hoist arrangement.

M. E. Bricker operated a tinsmith shop and hardware store in the building from the early 1900's to the middlle 1900's. A tin shop had been in this location since the mid-1800's. The large machines date from 1870-the 1900's.

The ceiling and much of the interior of the tinsmith shop are black because of open-flame pots used to heat the lead solder. M. E. Bricker and his wife Mabel bought the shop in 1916. Tinsmiths could put a roof on a house, do rain spouting, stove pipe work, etc. The two interior photos show some of the other items made by tinsmiths.

The Hardware store/ tinshop was the business of S. E. Smith prior to Bricker's purchase. The major part of the building was Grove & Bortner's Carriage Works, which also built wagons, reapers,mowers, plows & rakes according to the advertisement on the building. The steepled building is an old firehouse.

The almost identical view of the structure today. The tinshop is the M. E. Bricker Memorial Tin Shop