Mills of Clayton county
- The Mills
of Clayton co. 1835-1882
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- The Mills of Clayton
co. 1835-1882 - compiled
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Boardman's Sawmill, Dry Mill Branch (built
1837)
Bowen's Sawmill, Millville (built 1835)
Centennial Mill, Sperry Township (built 1876)
Elkader Mill, Elkader (built 1849)
Elkport Mill, Elkport (built 1860)
Fleming's Sawmill, North McGregor, Marquette
(operating in 1882)
Garnavillo Mill, Buck Creek (built 1857)
Guttenberg Flour Mill, Guttenberg (built
1854)
Kleinlein's
Mill, near Strawberry Point
(built about 1860)
Marsh and Spaulding's on Bloody Run River,
McGregor
Mederville
Mill, Mederville
Millville Flouring Mill, Little Turkey River
(operating in 1882)
Millville Sawmill, Little Turkey River (built
1835)
Model Mill, Jefferson Township (built 1867)
Motor
Mill, Motor (built 1864)
Osterdock
Milling Company (*not on the
Swisher list)
Pelzer's Mill, Miner's Creek, Jefferson
Township (built 1849)
Strawberry Point Mill, Strawberry Point
Valley Mill, Garnavillo Township (built 1853)
Volga City Mill, Volga River (built 1857)
Windsor's Mill, Lodomillo Township (built
1860)
Walter's Mill, Wagner Township (built 1871)~source
of the list of mills (*unless otherwise
noted): "Iowa, Land of Many Mills",
by Jacob Swisher; State Historical Society of
Iowa, 1940.
~transcribed by Roseanna Zehner
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