New: (3D Satellite)
"New" in the above satellite label is relative. It was built in 1912, and it probably has been a long time since this facility stored grain.
The research of Mayflower Mills was motivated by this post:
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| Barbara J Anderson posted, cropped This is currently Jackson Oil and Solvents, can anyone tell me what it used to be? (Leesburg Road, near to St Francis) [Of the several answers, Mayflower Mills was the correct one.] |
This proves that they milled flour.
And they had more than one brand of flour.
Their original location was downtown by the Wabash & Erie Canal. The right-of-way of the canal is now occupied by the NS/Nickle Plate railroad. This fire is another reminder that grain dust is very flammable.
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| Allen County Public Library Fire at Mayflower Mills, Columbia Street between Calhoun and Harrison, Fort Wayne IN, 21 May 1911. Includes Fischer Bros. Paper, and seed store. |
Is this the side of the building that faced the canal instead of Columbia Street?
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| Allen County Public Library Mayflower Mills, Fort Wayne IN: 1913. reproduced from a printed source. |
The 1913 photo must have been of the remnants of their old location because after the $125,000 May 21, 1911, fire, Mayflower Mills rebuilt at the new location. [FireFighter-v3_1535] Concrete silos would have been a relatively new development in 1912. It appears that their old location was a grain warehouse instead of an elevator because grain was handled in bags during the canal era.
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| FireFighter-v3_1536 |
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| FireFighter-v5_2119 |
Evidently Mayflower Mills was still grinding flour in 1968.
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| FireFighter-v3_1491 |
Mayflower Mills was on a 1972 list of buildings that were too tall to reach all of the floors with a ladder truck. [FireFighter-v4_1795]
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