Doug Crispin
Doug Crispin
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Obviously, this was the tallest building in town. I'm guessing it was six or seven stories tall. It had a massive head house where it picked up the grain. There was a pit outside where vehicles dumped grain. In the middle of the building was a big elevator that lifted the grain to the top of the structure and then moved it to the proper storage areas. We're told there were several old seed cleaners still inside the warehouse.
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During the early 1900s, the Boston Flouring Mill's capacity to store and process grain increased tremendously.
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As Linn County farmers transitioned from food products to grass seed, the warehouse changed to provide seed cleaning and storage.
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We were sad to see it come down without any notice. We understand that it's privately owned and on private property, but from our perspective, it would have been nice to have been given notice so we could have taken photos, or gotten historical things out of the building. There also could have been some options for the state of Oregon to have taken it over through a historical trust or as a nonprofit.