The Old Elberton Flour Mill, 1895.

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The Old Elberton Flour Mill, 1895.

The Flour Mill was one the main employers of the town, but closed down during the turn-of-the-century. The Mill's closure was devastating to the local economy.

Image Courtesy of Whitman County Rural Heritage.
http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/whitman/id/1453/rec/4

This file appears in: Ghost Town of Elberton

By Robert M. Lambeth
The towns of the Palouse followed similar patterns of early growth as white settlers flooded into the area, followed by a long and gradual decline with the greater mechanization of farming. Some simply vanished. Today,the ghost town of Elberton…