Gold Medal Flour Mill

Read the post before this one, so it goes in order.   I posted in the wrong places.

We saw a brochure for the Gold Medal Flour Mill, which was the main industry in the area back in 1874.   But apparently, they did not know that flour dust is highly flammable while producing 2 million pounds of flour per day.  With dust build up, four years later, there was a huge explosion  that killed 18 workers and destroyed nearly a third of the city's flour milling capacity.   They built it back up with huge vacuums to suck the dust out into the air and aimed  it in the Mississippi River .    In 1964 they just closed the doors and left everything inside.    College kids and homeless people moved in and in 1991, a fire once again burned it up, only leaving the outer cement block walls.   In California, we would have torn this thing down, as it is a crumbling bunch of bricks, lightly reinforced with some beams.   One little earthquake and that whole thing is coming down.   They are not worried though. Minnesota does not have earthquakes.

 

 

They were baking fresh bread in their kitchen and offering free samples and I bought a recipe book.   I will have to have Mr. Burkeett install dust removing equipment in our kitchen.   Don't want to take any chances.