Stone Steps by Cooperage, Clayton County, Iowa

Motor Mill Historic Site; listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Completed in 1869, the mill ground barley, oats and rye for livestock feed. Corn was ground into cornmeal. Wheat and buckwheat was ground into flour. To ship flour and corn meal, barrels were made in the cooperage.

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