Mill City Museum opens September 13, 2003. An attraction for all ages, the museum chronicles the flour milling industry that dominated world flour production for roughly a half-century and fuele...
Mill Ruins Park opens. Photo taken by Mill City Museum staff.
St. Anthony Falls Heritage Trail opens. Photo taken by Mill City Museum staff.
Stone Arch Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic. Photo taken by Mill City Museum staff.
Abandoned Washburn A Mill gutted by fire.
Washburn A Mill is designated a National Historic Landmark.
St. Anthony Falls Historic District including the James J. Hill Stone Arch Bridge, Pillsbury A Mill and the Washburn A Mill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Washburn A mill closes.
Second lock and dam constructed. Lock and Dam constuction is seen near the Stone Arch Bridge.
Northern States Power becomes the sole licensee of waterpower at the falls.
Lock and dam construction opens the upper river to navigation.
1930 to 1950 Many flour mills are dismantled; bridges and railroad trestles are cleared from the district.
Fire damages south side of the Washburn A Mill. MHS file name is ExLobR04 Image from the Minneapolis Tribune, September 17, 1928
Saw milling above the falls draws to a close.
The Lower Dam hydroelectric plant is built and leased to the Twin City Rapid Transit Company.
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