Otto Johnson Memorial Millstone - Lindsborg, KS
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N 38° 33.967 W 097° 40.472
14S E 615475 N 4269462
Millstone and memorial plaque located near the historic Smokey Valley Roller Mill.
Waymark Code: WMEZT3
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 07/29/2012
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The Smokey Valley Roller mill, built in 1898, is on the National Register of Historic Places. But before it was built another flour mill stood on this site, a wooden mill that used millstones instead of the modern roller milling process. In the early 1870's Charles Johnson with the help of his brother, Otto, built the original mill. It was that mill that gave local farmers an outlet for their wheat and really opened up this part of Kansas to wheat farming.
This millstone is a memorial to Otto Johnson placed here by his three daughters. The bronze plaque reads:
In Memory of
OTTO JOHNSON
who worked for is brother,
Charles J. Johnson at the Lindsborg
mill for six years and helped
to build the first mill and dam.
by his daughters
Edna O. Heline
Edith E. Johnson
Ellen A. Nelson