{"id":1361,"date":"2019-11-19T18:29:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2019-11-20T08:31:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:31:02","slug":"the-story-behind-pickwick-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/blog\/2019\/11\/19\/the-story-behind-pickwick-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind Pickwick Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pickwick Mill in Pickwick, Minnesota, started in 1856 by Thomas Grant and Wilson Davis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The building started as a sawmill but was later converted to produce flour. It is the oldest flour mill found in Southeast Minnesota.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The mill was a water-powered gristmill on Big Trout Creek.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1917 the roof was damaged by a cyclone. When it was repaired they put a flat roof on instead of the gable roof.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When the historical society took it over they returned the roof to the gable roof it originally had.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The mill has several flights of stairs each with the names of people who have worked there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now the mill is still intact but is no longer used to make flour. It stands as a historic site and museum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

George Johnson, of Rushford, Minnesota, visited the mill on Saturday, Oct. 5. He said he thought it was a beautiful historic place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeff Wershofen started working at the mill as a child because it was where there was adult supervision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Throughout the mill, there are flour bags hung. On the top floor of the mill, they have many strung together with other artifacts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wershofen described his experience at the mill as part of a perfect childhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To find out more about Pickwick Mill and Wershofen\u2019s experiences watch the following video.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Pickwick Mill in Pickwick, Minnesota, started in 1856 by Thomas Grant and Wilson Davis.\u00a0 The building started as a sawmill but was later converted to produce flour. It is the oldest flour mill found in Southeast Minnesota.\u00a0 The mill was a water-powered gristmill on Big Trout Creek.\u00a0 In 1917 the roof was damaged by … Continue reading The story behind Pickwick Mill<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,396,68,340,18,1],"tags":[500,272,242,11],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-family","category-history","category-local","category-outdoors","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-history","tag-local","tag-minnesota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educate.winona.edu\/winona360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}