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 Old Cotton Oil Mill
N 31° 57.941 W 099° 57.893
14R E 408826 N 3537038
State Historical Survey Committee Medallion and Plate providing some history of the cotton oil mill that operated here until 1939, at 711 N Mellwood St, Winters, TX.
Waymark Code: WM12MJR
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/15/2020
Views: 3
Please respect the "No Trespassing" signs in place, and take only photographs while leaving only footprints. The remains of the old mill are back on the property a bit, but one can get a good look from the street.
Marker Number: 3713
Marker Text:
First local industrial plant. Processed cottonseed into cake, meal, hulls, oil. Gave city a good payroll, a work whistle marking times of day, and a good aroma.
Built 1909-10 by Bird, Hall & Mertz, of San Angelo. Stone for millhouse was quarried at Posey Farm, on Gap Creek (SE of city).
Owned by Herman Giesecke and Associates, of Ballinger (1911-27); then by Anderson, Clayton & Co., of Houston. Mill closed in 1939 after cotton farming declined.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1962
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