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Globe Mill
In its day, the old mill on South Water Street was the hub of activity for a farming community.
Hundreds of gears turned as grain was pulverized into flour, generated by power from the Rock River.
Globe Mill
1853 One of three mills in town:
1] West side of
river,
Built 1848
Emerald Mill
Empire Mill
Globe Mill
A to Z Farm
Center
c1992 Bought by
Empire Globe Corp.
2001
Building destroyed by fire
2] East side of river, Yellow Mill,
built 1842.
3] East side of river, Big Brick Mill,
built 1848.
In 1881, in company with Jonas Sleeper, Fred Miller engaged in the manufacture of flour at the Brick mill, the site of the present waterworks plant. The firm was known as F. Miller & Co., which later became the Globe Milling Co., the output of which at one time was 70,000 barrels of flour a year, and sold out his interest in 1885.
1858
Lower Dam rebuilt after flood
1894
Globe Mill & Elevator drawing
1915 Ad
1957
07 24 Ray Kaercher, vice president of the Globe Milling Company, has been selected to direct the Red Feather Drive in Watertown in October. Mr. Kaercher is now lining up division leaders and laying plans for the coming drive. In the 1956 drive Mr. Kaercher served as associate drive chairman working with industry and payroll deduction. WDT
1958
07 02 Effect proposed Rock River water diversion would have on
milling concerns. WDT
1999
07 09 Retaining wall along river destroyed WDT
2001
05 03 130-year-old mill building burns WDT
2006 ROC building, 321 S Water
2007
12 19 Approval of conceptual plans for the redevelopment of the former Empire Globe property. The total project will encompass the area along the west bank of the Rock River just north of the Mill Race Terrace Apartment building and will go north and include the upper and lower city parking lots on the east side of Water Street from the east end of Emmet Street north to include much of the city parking lots. WDT
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Cross reference:
No 1: Ira O. Howe was a miller, 1881
No 2: Nicholas Bickner employee
No 3: Globe Mill Millwheel
