Making Mill City: Flour and Fortune in Minneapolis

A richly illustrated history of the flour factories that transformed the milling industry worldwide-and forever changed the culture and architecture of Minneapolis Among the most consequential advances of the Industrial Revolution was the invention of the modern roller mill, which sent the traditional millstone into obsolescence and fundamentally changed the production of a key ingredient to feeding the world.The culture and landscape of its hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was altered as well, and Making Mill City tells the story of how revolutionary technologies originating at St.Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River put Minneapolis on the map and cemented its world status as “Mill City.” With deep historical detail and abundant illustrations, Robert M.Frame III charts the dramatic transformation of Minneapolis milling-and urban life-between the early 1870s and 1920s.Two machines propelled this change: the middlings purifier and the modern roller mill.Enabling millers to grind hard