Spokane Mill Company
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Owned by Spokane's founding father, James N. Glover, the Spokane Mill Co. was one of the earliest mills to operate on the Spokane River.
Image L84-197.19 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
This file appears in: Water Power: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
Water Power: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition
For nineteenth-century pioneers like James Glover, falling water represented power - the power to grind flour, to saw logs, and to build a city. These were the fundamental industrial activities in a…