Snowy Butte Mill

Built on the banks of Little Butte Creek in 1872 under the name Snowy Butte Mill, the world-famous Butte Creek Mill is on the National Register of Historic Places and is the only grist mill in Oregon still grinding flour. Local farmers brought their wheat there, with wagons lining the road for miles, and Klamath Indians traveled 90 miles from Fort Klamath along the old military road in front of the mill to trade berries and leather goods for flour. The mill still uses its original French buhr stones, quarried near Paris in France, assembled into four-foot-diameter stones in Moline, Illinois, shipped around the Horn to Crescent City, California, carried over the mountains by wagon, and put into service there more than 130 years ago.

Eagle Point, Oregon · United States