Sunday, August 10, 2025

1889 Phelps Mill in Otter Tail County, MN

(Satellite)

Street View, Dec 2020

We can clearly see in this view that the bridge is pin connected.
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It seems the river generally has a strong flow.
Amanda Carson, Aug 2024

Wyatt W. Penke, Oct 2023

Miriam Nordstrom, Aug 2021

Wyatt W. Penke, Apr 2023

These must be the three purifiers on the second floor.
Steven Mosborg, Jun 2024

This would be the third floor. They have removed all of the leather belts in the mill, but they did keep the lineshafts and sheaves. This makes me appreciate that the grist mill near Muscatine, IA, kept their belts intact.
Steven Mosborg, Jun 2024

Jen took special note of the machine in the left side of Steven's photo above. I've never seen something like this before. I noticed that it is not labelled on the above diagram. Obviously, all of those bags going between the inside and outside were a maintenance headache.
Jen Deblieck, Aug 2024

In addition to maintaining a lot of leather belts, they had to maintain a lot of wooden ducts and legs.
Steven Mosborg, Jun 2024

More legs and missing leather belts. There are a lot more interior shots on Google Maps. This is just a sampling.
Steven Mosborg, Jun 2024

Facebook Reel
[The audio is the soothing sounds of flowing water.]

More soothing water flow.
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