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This is the old family grain mill it is now deserted in Ashton is a city in Spink County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 122 at the 2010 census!
Owner Birth: Oct. 4, 1872, Germany
Death: Aug. 27, 1949
Brown County
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Thank you Scandi :-) This was in South Dakota family . Our farm was in Wi :-)
Thanks Packrat and Hunter . Scandi this was just a place local farmers could take their crops to have them milled or sell them . Not sure cats and dogs can keep rats away LOL In the silo on our farm they were in there and we had many many cats and dogs. They are dirty rodents and freak me out !
very cool manikin:)
Is it still standing?
Hi David I am not sure . My Grandmother did not date photo . I did try to google a Grain mill in Ashton and nothing comes up . I am guessing this photo was taken in 1960 to 70 ?
Thank you Bellin :-) X
It's still standing, if you look on Google maps satellite view, it sits at the end of 2 nd street & North Railroad Street. Google street view doesn't work in Ashton, but you can tell by the layout that it is the Elevator in question.
pictures from 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chumbroflipper/5109750086/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chumbroflipper/5373940511/in/photostream/
wow David that is is it ! Looks like it is ready to tumble now ? I wish they had the same shot from front also so I could see that. I would love to read signs hanging by door . I will send you link email on side of family that owned this . His name is in Ashton search .
Seems it was a unusual one from the flickr comment ?
Thank you Phil :-)
Hey Mani, found a front view of your elevator & check out the old post office in Ashton.
http://kathleen-dakotadreams.blogspot.ca/2012/07/road-trip-with-camera.html
Now that is cool David ! Lots of tree and bush over growth and signs seem to be gone . Gee I think his mill is a historical site in Ashtom. Love that PO ! Now if we can find Gas station too :-)
Thank you Kerry,and mizjane it is nice t see a new face on my post Jane welcome and thank you !
What seems curious Mani, is that in the second image walksoftly found, there seems to be (fairly) new sheetmetal enclosing the center section of the building, where they would have loaded the grain cars on the R.R. . But those tracks dont look very used .?????????? This would make a GREAT building for the C.W. complaint department. LOL
Hey mikie if you look on google earth, you will see that the rails have been pulled, they are piled up to the east of the elevator. I think it's been a while since this building was used, it's in bad shape as seen in link I posted (#14).
It would be a great place to look around in.
The building in my photo was already deserted and walksofts links are more recent to building than mine is . It must have been a nice mill for so many photo's to show up on walksofts links for people who take photo's of old grain mills . The family stayed in area but that son died he was born in 1914 died after leaving Ashton .
Thank you Hedge !!
Thank you toolate !!!!
I would love to explore these buildings.
That is a wonderful photograph. My kind of place.
Thank you pack,amphora and Thrifty :-)
Thank you Bratjdd :-)
Thank you toracat and Phil :-)
what a good photo
Thank you Joe63 ! Glad to see you on my post and liking it :-)
Thank you smsorenson ! So nice to see a new face on one of my posts , it is appreciated that you stopped to give a love to this photo