Hale and Family Papers, 1819–1914ĭescription: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, including correspondence on his milling and lumber interests. Baker for the Pillsbury Washburn Flour Milling company in Anoka from 1897.
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Contains an engineers' pocket memoranda book by T. Northern States Power Company (Minnesota), 1856–1983ĭescription: Records of certain Minnesota predecessor companies of Northern States Power Company. Washburn & Co., at Anoka, Minn." American Miller 8, no. "Fire-Swept in a Night." Anoka County Union, August 21, 1884. See materials in the "Lincoln Mill" folders. Relevant materials filed under "Washburn." Location 149.I.17.9B. Gregg Flour Milling Collection, –ĭescription: Subject files, including photocopies, photographs, and printed items, related to flour mills and milling in Minnesota and other Midwestern states (c.1850s-1980s). "The Anoka Mill," The Northwestern Miller 10, no. Materials on mills in Anoka County, including the Lincoln Mill. Paulĭescription: Background research files, notes, photocopies, and other material related to Minnesota flour milling, specific flour mills, flour milling technology, and specific individuals connected with the industry. Manuscript Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Frame Minnesota Flour Milling Research Files, – Ward, Tom, "Anoka County History: No Anoka without the Rum River,", September 21, 2011. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 2006. Picturing Anoka County: 150 Years of Anoka County History. "The Mauve Decade of the Flour Trade." The Northwestern Miller 159, no. Prairie Lightning: The Rise and Fall of William Drew Washburn. "History of Mill Recalled as Wrecking Continues." Anoka Herald, February 14, 1933. Minneapolis: Hennepin Publishing Company, 1905. History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County, Minnesota. "Milling Around." Twin City Postcard Club 3, no. As of 2012, Anoka City Hall still stood on the former site of the Lincoln Mill.įerrell, Dick. In 1950, the riverside tract of land that held the mill was sold to the city of Anoka. The grain elevator was used until 1939, when the rest of the structure was torn down. Most of Lincoln Mill was torn down in 1933, but the grain elevator and first floor remained. It was the first mill in the United States to manufacture Durum products, which are used in spaghetti and macaroni, among other things. After the war, the mill was reconditioned and used to make Durum wheat products. In 1910, the company was reorganized and named Pillsbury Flour Mills Company.ĭuring World War I, the Lincoln Mill was used for corn instead of flour. It was owned by the English but managed by Pillsbury and Washburn. Pillsbury merged their companies and created a business syndicate called Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company. The sale was part of a bigger business deal. In 1889, the Lincoln Mill was sold to an English company with interests in Minnesota flour. After residents circulated a petition, the Anoka County Board decided to exempt the company from taxation. The Washburn Milling Company, which operated the Lincoln Mill, received assistance from Anoka County for the rebuilding. It opened in time for the 1885 wheat season. The mill was rebuilt immediately with an increased capacity of 1,600 barrels of flour per day. The fire could have devastated the young town of Anoka, but the people of Anoka pressed on.
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Washburn purchased it several years later, but he built the Lincoln Mill because the first mill could not meet the day's increased demand for flour.Ī great fire swept through Anoka in 1884, and the Lincoln Mill was destroyed along with most of the town's industrial area. The first flour mill in Anoka was built in 1854 and powered by water. The Lincoln Mill was not the first mill in Anoka, but it was the largest, with a capacity of 600 to 700 barrels of flour per day. They called it the Lincoln Flouring Mill, named after Abraham Lincoln because of the Washburn family's political support for him.
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Washburn built a large, state-of-the-art mill on the Rum River in Anoka. Washburn, brother of General Mills founder and Wisconsin governor Cadwallader Colden (C.C.) Washburn. They also used their influence to expand the Soo Line railroad into Minneapolis. Many businessmen and speculators moved their investments from sawmills to flour mills. The Lincoln Mill became one the largest country flour mills in the state, surviving until 1939 in spite of catastrophes like the Anoka fire of 1884.įrom the 1860s to the 1880s, Anoka and neighboring areas were in search of new industries to replace the dying lumber industry. In 1880, two Minneapolis businessmen built the Lincoln Flouring Mill in Anoka, Minnesota. Minneapolis became known as the "Flour Milling Capital of the World" in 1880, but smaller towns in Minnesota also had successful flour mills.