Grist Mill

In 1845, Jonathan Banes built a three-story frame cotton mill known as Metamora Cotton Factory on this site. Banes, a former contractor on the canal, converted the cotton factory to a flouring mill in 1856 and sold it to John Curry in 1857. Over the next several years, various owners operated the mill under the names Hoosier Mills and later Crescent Mills. Fire destroyed the original mill in 1899, and it was rebuilt in 1900. After a second fire in 1932, it was converted into the present two-story brick building. In 1946, the State of Indiana purchased a 14-mile section of the Whitewater Canal, including the mill, as a state historic site. Today, the mill grinds white and yellow corn into corn meal and grits, and wheat into whole wheat flour and cereal, with millstones powered by the 12-foot breast water wheel in the canal behind the mill.

Metamora, Indiana · United States