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Paoli Mills

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218:, came to work at the mill. They eventually took over the mill from Matts and in the 1860s they built the 3-story stone flouring mill that sits on top of the millrace. In 1870 they milled 22,000 bushels of grain and sawed lumber in the sawmill. The sawmill ceased operation around 1877, but the flour mill was upgraded and expanded, and other Minches took over the operation. One of them, 48: 225:
The Minches' stone section of the mill has walls of coursed limestone rubble, three feet thick at the base. Each floor up, the wall becomes six inches thinner, forming a ledge on which the floor joists rest. Much of the milling machinery is intact. In the basement are three
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In 1938, Paul Fetherston bought the mill complex and used it for its original purpose for several years before he and his family converted it into a warehouse for their feed and seed business.
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from the 1880s, and a "Midget Marvel" multi-stage milling machine manufactured about 1900 or 1910. On the 2nd floor are E.P. Allis
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channel a half mile long from the dam to his mill, producing a ten-foot head of water. Matts was at the time Sheriff of
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on the Sugar River. He constructed a wooden dam upstream from the mill and dug a
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Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
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In the 1860s brothers Bernhard and Francis Minch, immigrants from
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National Register of Historic Places in Dane County, Wisconsin
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in 1979 and on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989.
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Warehouses on the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Paoli, Wisconsin
42°55′47″N 89°31′31″W / 42.92972°N 89.52528°W / 42.92972; -89.52528 (Paoli Mills)
Peter W. Matts
79000337
Sugar River
Paoli, Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places
Peter W. Matts
Paoli
sawmill
millrace
Dane County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Assembly
Bavaria
Oscar F. Minch
Leffel turbines
E.P. Allis
roller mills
purifiers
flour dressers
National Register of Historic Places
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service



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