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History

Soon after Minneapolis was born on the Mississippi's west bank, the city's flour milling industry skyrocketed. Powered by the mighty river and fed by boxcars of grain rolling in from the plains, the industry gave Minneapolis bragging rights as the “Flour Milling Capital of the World.”

 

Mill City Museum

704 South 2nd St. Minneapolis, MN 55401

612-341-7555 | mcm@mnhs.org