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In 1877, the mill entered a partnership with John Crosby to form the Washburn-Crosby Company, producing winter wheat flour. That same year Washburn sent William Hood Dunwoody to England to open the market for spring wheat. [5] Dunwoody was successful and became a silent partner. In 1878, the "A" mill was destroyed in a flour dust explosion ...
The Great Mill Disaster, also known as the Washburn A Mill explosion, occurred on May 2, 1878, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.The disaster resulted in 18 deaths. The explosion occurred on a Thursday evening when an accumulation of flour dust inside the Washburn A Mill, the largest mill in the world at the time, led to a dust explosion that killed the fourteen workers inside the mil
Mill City Museum is located in the ruins of the Washburn "A" Mill next to Mill Ruins Park on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.The museum, an entity of the Minnesota Historical Society that opened in 2003, focuses on the founding and growth of Minneapolis, especially flour milling and the other industries that used hydropower from Saint Anthony Falls.
While originally a flour mill, General Mills was formed on June 20, 1928 as a vehicle for the merger of successful Minnesota milling company Washburn-Crosby with more than two dozen smaller mills ...
Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company was an American flour milling company that operated about one-quarter of the mills in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when the city was the flour milling capital of the world. [1] Formed as a business entity, Northwestern produced flour for the half-century between 1891 and 1953, when its A Mill was converted ...
Washburn "B" Flour Mill Complex [1866-1931] Washburn "C" Flour Mill Complex [1878-1960] Washburn-Crosby Company Elevator No. 2 [1916-1998] Elevators No. 2 & 3 were large grain elevators south of the Washburn A mill complex. They were separated from the complex by railroad tracks and connected by a conveyor tunnel.
The Washburn-Crosby Company spent three years recreating flakes strong enough to remain intact during packaging. The popular cereal is now known for featuring big-time athletes on its boxes.
Cadwallader C. Washburn. Cadwallader Colden Washburn (April 22, 1818 – May 14, 1882) was an American businessman, politician, and soldier who founded a mill that later became General Mills. A member of the Washburn family of Maine, he was a U.S. congressman and governor of Wisconsin, and served as a general in the Union Army during the ...