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Elkins Flour Mill / Lebanon Flour Mill
Mill No: Or-22-02-ElkinsFlourMill-LebanonFlourMill

State -

Oregon
County -

Linn Co.
Township -

n/a
Year -

1871
Water Source -

Santiam/Albany Canal-possibly steam later
 

The frame 30'X 40' three story grist/flour mill was built in 1871, by millwright Thomas J. Hannah, using eavy hand-hewn timbers employing the mortise and tenon technique fastened with wooden pegs at the joints. The mill is sided with shiplap siding with vertical siding along the ground/water table level. By 1875, proprietors Joseph & William Elkins were producing 160 barrels of flour/day. The Elkins Bros. were backers of the Willammette Valley & Cascade Mtn. Wagon Road, the canal system, and railroading enterprises.
The frame 30'X 40' three story grist/flour mill was built in 1871, by millwright Thomas J. Hannah, using eavy hand-hewn timbers employing the mortise and tenon technique fastened with wooden pegs at the joints. The mill is sided with shiplap siding with vertical siding along the ground/water table level. By 1875, proprietors Joseph & William Elkins were producing 160 barrels of flour/day. The Elkins Bros. were backers of the Willammette Valley & Cascade Mtn. Wagon Road, the canal system, and railroading enterprises.


Some early millers were James Cowan, John Little, Jonathan Wassom, Luther Elkins, and Richard Creadle. Wassom-55 yrs. from Pennsylvania, had a wife Ruth-53, and 2 sons; W.R.Wassom-23-farmer, O.A.Wassom-20, Mary Kees-67-sister-in-law, and a boader-Philip Linebarger-from New York. Luther Elkins-71-a retired Maine farmer, had a son Joseph-47, also a flour miller. Richard Cheadle-50 a miller from Ohio, and his wife Louisa-45, had 3 sons and 4 daughters, ages 28-3years of age.
Some early millers were James Cowan, John Little, Jonathan Wassom, Luther Elkins, and Richard Creadle. Wassom-55 yrs. from Pennsylvania, had a wife Ruth-53, and 2 sons; W.R.Wassom-23-farmer, O.A.Wassom-20, Mary Kees-67-sister-in-law, and a boader-Philip Linebarger-from New York. Luther Elkins-71-a retired Maine farmer, had a son Joseph-47, also a flour miller. Richard Cheadle-50 a miller from Ohio, and his wife Louisa-45, had 3 sons and 4 daughters, ages 28-3years of age.


The mill was purchased some time in the 1990's along with the land belonging to it by Linn-Benton Community College as a site to build a Lebanon center of the college. The Lebanon Center and East Linn Workforce Development Center Complex was built in 2003 with 44,000 sq.ft. of classroom and office space for the LBCC Lebanon Center, DHS Community Human Services, the Oregon Employment Dept, and the Community Services Consortium. A 2,500 sq.ft. Annex was also built as a visitor center for the restored mill featuring rest room facilities, a kichen and several meeting rooms. The Annex also contains an area of displays featuring the mill next door that LBCC exteriorally restored also in 2003 as part of the complex. Kudos to LBCC.




Directions: Bounded by Santiam Hwy/US 20, Industrial Way, the Santiam/Albany Canal, and Callaghan RR Tracks in NW edge of downtown Lebanon.

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