Boston Flour Mill is a historic

gristmill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

Shedd, Oregon Shedd is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Linn County, Oregon, United States, on Oregon Route 99E. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 204. History In 1858, a community and gristmill was established a ...

, United States. It was built in 1863 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is part of the

Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site is a state park near Shedd, Oregon, Shedd in Linn County, Oregon, United States, administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The mill was first built in 1858. It burned down in 1862 but was reb ...

. The mill has been the site of field schools of both the historic preservation program and the archaeology program of the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a Public university, public research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1876, the university is organized into nine colleges and schools and offers 420 undergraduate and gra ...

, in 2003 and 2005 respectively.

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External links

The Boston Mill SocietyHistoric images of Boston Mill
from Salem Public Library *

Historic American Engineering Record Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). It administers three programs established to document historic places in the United States: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American E ...

(HAER) documentation, filed under Shedd, Linn County, OR: ** ** ** Buildings and structures in Linn County, Oregon Historic American Engineering Record in Oregon National Register of Historic Places in Linn County, Oregon Queen Anne architecture in Oregon Industrial buildings completed in 1863 Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon 1863 establishments in Oregon {{Oregon-NRHP-stub