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unusual facts about flour mill



Elberton, Washington

It grew to have a population of 500 and at one time had a sawmill, a flour mill, a railroad (the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company) that passed through and the world's largest prune dryer.

Monitor, Oregon

Oregon Geographic Names (OGN) states that a local story about the possible origin of the name "Monitor" is that it is derived from a type of flour mill, the Monitor mill, in use in the early days of the community.

Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Quebec

The first settlers arrived near the 1770s and built a flour mill on a township located alongside the Rivière de l'Achigan.


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Blackmailers

The title was an allusion to the flour mill from Kusturica’s Black Cat, White Cat.

Charles Manegold, Jr.

In 1876 he had become a partner of Charles James Kershaw in the ownership of the Northwestern Marine elevator and in 1878 he and his father purchased the Reliance Flour Mill at West Water street.

Davis' Mills Battle Site

The small settlement included houses, a flour mill, and a saw mill on the north bank of the Wolf River near a Mississippi Central Railroad wooden trestle crossing.

History of Fort Worth, Texas

Julian Feild opened a flour mill and general store in 1856 and the Butterfield Overland Mail and the Southern Pacific Stage Line used the town as their western terminus on the westward journey to California.

Joseph Nunan

He also built a convent in Perth for the Sisters of Mercy, and a store and house for Walter Padbury near his flour mill in Guildford.

Kent Industrial District

Zenas Kent, father of Kent namesake Marvin Kent, built a flour mill in 1837 on the site of the Haymaker's first mill, just south of the current district's boundaries.

Lake of the Woods Milling Company

Krause Milling Co. - 1929 grain elevator and flour mill site in Radway, Alberta.

Middlesex Centre

On July 7, 2007, the The White Stripes performed a free concert at the Arva Flour Mill as part of their Canadian tour.

Preserved GWR Modified Hall Class locomotives

Sold to Jeremy Hosking, by 2008 it was at The Flour Mill workshops in the Forest of Dean receiving a thorough overhaul.

Proctor, Kentucky

In 1862, the Proctor flour mill was burned by troops of CSA Colonel John Hunt Morgan as he attempted to stop the retreat of General George W. Morgan (USA) from Cumberland Gap.

Realicó

A major employer of the town is the Cargill flour mill, although recently the mill's importance has waned, supporting fewer workers as the economy has become more services-oriented.

Sagebien wheel

Sagebien built his first wheel around 1850, and made the first full-sized version, at 6 to 7 horsepower, at a flour mill in Ronquerolles in 1851.

Sinclair Skinner

Skinner has worked for numerous engineering companies including Ohmeda, Inc., Honeywell, Pillsbury, McDonnell Douglas Corporation and The Architect of the Capitol where he performed testing and development for the space shuttle’s main engine controllers, manufacturing for a flour mill company and designed roadways in Macon County, Alabama where he was an apprentice to Curtis Pierce, the first African American county engineer in Macon County, Alabama.

Thomas Magarey

He married Elizabeth Verco on 13 March 1848, first living at Noarlunga, then moving to Hindmarsh in 1849 where, with his brother James, he had bought the Hindmarsh flour-mill from John Ridley.

William Balmain

This resulted in the affair of John Baughan, a settler who had tried to set up a flour mill.

William Onyeabor

He was later crowned a High Chief in Enugu, where he still lives as a businessman working on government contracts and running his own flour mill.