Flour Milling of the 1800s Oehler Mill
The Oehler mill was built before the "new" roller mill technology, which came to La Crosse in the 1880s. Stone ground mills could grind wholewheat flour, grist, and cornmeal. Roller mills could make several additional categories of flour and feed then stone mills could. Also roller mills surpassed stone mill's ability to remove nonwheat/food ...