Butte Creek Mill (part 1 of 2) - Eagle Point, OR

The Butte Creek Mill and General Store is still one of Southern Oregons favorite destinations today as people come to take home the whole grain goodness of mills flours baking mixes and many culinary treats along with a whole lot of history.

The mill began operation in 1872, built by the pioneers with double-bitted axes and hand saws felled trees that were already more than one hundred years old. Foundation pillars nearly two feet square, were hewn with broad axes; the beams were morticed together and secured to one another with hardwood pegs; boards for the walls were whipsawed from logs and nailed on with hand made square nails. The mill consists of a basement and three floors. ...

More info at www.ButteCreekMill.com

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• Butte Creek Mill
• stone-ground products
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• water-powered mill
• operating grain mill
• southern Oregon
• Rogue Valley
• state of Jefferson
• Eagle Point

[SteffenReichel]

Sorry, wooden Tooth in gear were not only to prevent sparks (if a metal gear get in sparks, well, something really, really bad is going wrong there), but on overload metal tooth break and one has to change the whole gear. On gears with wooden tooth, in case of overload the tooth will break, but can be changed, without changing the whole gear wheels. Also on age, the run down tooth are better to rebuild with new ones, than buying and changing a metal gear wheel itself.

[SupportWeThePeopleKB]

Excellent tour! Read Eric Sloane's "Diary of an Early American Boy", Dover Press, for an engrossing extension of this wonderful video. The real 1805 New England diary is richly annotated by artist and tool historian Sloane. The reader will see how medieval tools were adapted during the 18th and 19th centuries in the new republic.

[AlexAceDDR]

I used to swim in the dam area, they remodled it, and blocked it off. It's still cool to look at. It's walking distance from my house.