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| Nebraska State Historical Society posted ✨Sites Spotlight✨ The Neligh Mill and the Elkhorn River have had a complicated relationship. Once essential to operate the mill's water turbine to grind local grain, the river's water level also limited production at times. To operate 24/7, the river also provided hydroelectricity for the mill and the city of Neligh from 1900 to 1915. It wasn't until the dam was damaged during the Flood of 1920 that the mill's trajectory changed forever, forcing the abandonment of water power in favor of electricity. To learn more, visit https://history.nebraska.gov/neligh-mill-state-historic.../ |
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| nebraska_history, photo is about 1885 |
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| nebraska_history, photo is about 1909 |
The museum includes an outside braced boxcar.
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| Street View, Jul 2024 |
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| zac johns, Jul 2020 |
A line shaft is preserved, but the leather belts are missing.
This equipment is from the 1880s. [nebraska]
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| Harland Schuster, Jul 2023 |
The belt in this photo probably went to a line shaft. I noticed that they use chains for secondary power distribution.
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| Tom Harden, Sep 2017 |
Some more belts that have survived.
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| Joe Pinkerton, May 2017 |
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| Nali Yan, Mar 2018, to get this copy at photo resolution, I had to include the toolbar in the lower-left corner. |
I found a higher resolution copy of the part that I had trouble reading.
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| grandkids09caden@google.com, May 2017 |
The Leffel turbine was a tradename for a Francis turbine. [Dennis DeBruler]
I suspect that this photo was taken to document flood damage. Normally, water would go through the turbine, not under it.
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| nebraska_photos |
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| James Brookhouser, Sep 2024 |
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| James Brookhouser, Sep 2024 |
Did they use this steam engine to supplement the waterpower until they switched to electricity and diesel power supplements?
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| Joe Pinkerton, May 2017 |
It looks like the line shaft for these machines is running along the floor.
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| Melissa Mona, Aug 2019 |
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| nebraska_flour "Neligh Mills was one of the largest flour mills in Nebraska with a peak production of 98,000 pounds of flour per day from 1900 to 1920. The Depression of the 1930s forced many Nebraska mills to close, but Neligh Mills was resilient and survived. "Gold Medal flour was produced at the mill until May of 1940 when General Mills paid the mill $5,000 to become the sole owner of the brand name. See an original Neligh Mills Gold Medal Flour sack on display at the mill today." |
This photo shows the wood elevators were next to the mill building. So they have been torn down by 2024.
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| nebraska_photos |
I looked for the wood grain elevators in the above photo on a satellite map, but I could not find them. I did find them in an older street view. Unfortunately, I forgot to record the link, and now I can't find that view again. Bummer.
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| Street View, Mar 2018 |
The wood elevators were still standing in Jan 2020.
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| Google Earth, Jan 2020 |
The town's grain elevator is big given that they lost their C&NW rail service.
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| Street View, Jul 2024 |
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