A big sign marks where the elevated walkway is severed where Dock 2 used to meet Dock 3, now gone.
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A chalkboard halfway to the headhouse is untouched since the mill closed. It still has the cheat sheets!
Where the tailings boom meets the mill.
Looking past the Osborn along the side of the Hughitt Slip, where there have always been grain elevators for more than 100 years.
Looking across the catwalk behind the ore chutes, when they were up, and at the top of the ore chutes during loading.
Inside the pilot copper concentrator.
This was my first view of Harris Machinery’s property… it was strange to find what looked like a ghost town five minutes from downtown Minneapolis!
This is what it might have looked like if a new Ford descended in the elevator with its headlights on. As seen from the Mississippi side–the opposite portal faces the sand mine.
I had to search the shelves a while to find this old logbook. The open page lists changes in stock numbers for Cutler Hammer Coils, and one row says that a new coil was installed on the black larry. The larry is the machine that loads coke ovens.
The mill was powered, in part, by water flowing through turbines under it. After the flow worked the industrial heart of the flour mill, it was exit to the Mississippi here.