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This falls was the site of a cereal mill many years ago. There is nothing left of it except for a bit of concrete. It seems that this was the case in a number of places here in the Willamette Valley. Nothing much remains at those sites. Too bad some of these mills weren't preserved.

To see a still standing flour mill, I paid a visit to Thompson's Mill State Historic Site, where a flour mill was built in 1858, and sparked the building of the town of Boston (no longer in existence). The mill stayed in business for 150 years, ending its run in 1998. Here is a gallery of pictures of that mill - http://www.pbase.com/fotabug/070408mill

For information about this Oregon State Park, see - http://www.oregonstateparks.org/images/pdf/thompsonsmills.pdf