After Wilson Bros moved out, a furniture company moved in.
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A small machine shop level.
Installed in 1904 at the center of the plant, this is one of two batteries of boilers. Being in Oshkosh, heat was very important to keeping labor moving in the cold months.
Looking through the washer that is the first stop for the dredgings.
Where the tailings boom meets the mill.
I like to think of this as the hardware abstraction layer. It’s one of many subassembly monorail conveyors that dipped onto the factory floor to deliver assembled subsections where they needed to be on the main assembly floor below.
The flour mill’s interior is really just a system of steel and rubber tubes that crush flour over and over in the gap. This mill was never run off of water power directly, but it used to generate power using the river.
Modern ruins of the Gilman-Belden tram…
The brick substation and the wooden storage shed are the last two structures from The Milwaukee Road’s operations at Loweth.
The winch that hauled the sea leg, a decide to unload grain from waiting boats and barges.