Last Flour Mill in the Rochester, NY (Flour City) Region
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sagefemme
N 43° 08.815 W 077° 30.735
18T E 295714 N 4780193
Claimed in two seperate National Register of Historic Places nomination forms as the last remaining flour mill in operation in the Rochester (Flour City) area. Situated on Irondequoit Creek, it was powered by water from the creek until 1934.
Waymark Code: WMDGQ4
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/13/2012
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The two nominating forms cited above were the Daisy Flour Mill itself, and the original Penfield home of its owner, Samuel Rich, before he opened the Mill in 1848. Throughout the Erie Canal and Civil War periods(First and Second Erie Canals, not the Barge Canal), Monroe County, NY was this nation's "breadbasket" and leading flour producer. Over time, Rochester lost that distinction, first to Buffalo, NY and then to Minneapolis.
(The Rich, Samuel, House was built in 1816 and substantially expanded in 1832. In 1845, he subdivided and sold his original 1,000 acre holdings in Penfield, NY, and he remarried after his first wife died, moving several miles "downstream" to start a new life... with the mill.)
As of 1972, when the Daisy Flour Mill was listed on the NRHP, it was still producing flour.
In fact, I have first hand knowledge that it was still producing flour, as something of a novelty, in conjuction with its conversion to an upscale restaurant in the early 1980s.
None of the multitude of other mills on the Genesee River or Irondequoit Creek are even standing today.
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