The brick mill structure was built in 1910 and was added onto in the 1960's. The faded lettering on the building suggests that this was the home of "Daily Bread Flour" and "Joy Brand Corn Meal".

It has long sat idle and vacant, and is now being included as a part of a revitilization effort to give new life to abandoned, discarded structures, giving a new use to the old structures but still keeping a degree of the the integrity and history that these structures exude.

Daily Bread Four Mill

The mill about thirty years ago, still in operation.

A view inside the mill structure on the first floor near the shipping and receiving dock. *Update: My grandfather was the head miller there from 1922 until 1970. I climbed through every nook and cranny in that building and helped pack flour when I was young. My father and his two brothers helped build the square grain silos on the back of the building next to the railroad tracks. The family that owned the mill were the Hiltons. I believe that they or their relatives still live in Greensboro. Sorry I don't have any photos to share, just many happy memories. Phil Spainhour 02/01/2009*

Another exterior view of Granddad' first mill.

Mill interior during flour bagging operation.*Update: I was just looking at your photos of North State Mill in Greensboro, NC. Your assumption is correct that both Daily Bread Flour and Joy Brand Corn Meal were products of this firm. Both continue to be marketed by Lakeside Milling Company, also in North Carolina. I assume they bought the trademarks. My father worked as a salesman for North State for more than 20 years, until his death in 1958. I don't know when the mill finally closed, but I think it may well have been as late as the 1980s or even 1990s. In its final years, it was managed by Ruth Kirkpatrick who went to work there as bookkeeper in the 1950s. Apparently the mill kept itself alive long after most four mills had perished.I have vivid memories of the interior of the mill, the noise and dust. The mill operated a fleet of red and white delivery trucks that served much of central North Carolina. The CEO during much of the mid-20th Century was A. A. Hilton, a marvelous and generous employer. When my father built the house I grew up in, Mr. Hilton loaned him the money on a handshake. Times have truly changed!I understand the mill building is to be, or is being, renovated for other uses. I plan to check on that the next time I'm in Greensboro. Roger Pike 09/07/2010*

Mill interior.