St Olaf College - Viking Yearbook (Northfield, MN)

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Although the Mill, which was built by the town's founder, has been super- seded in local importance by colleges, the flour pro- duced was of such quality that it took the first honors at the Philadelphia Centen- nial in eighteen hundred seventy-six.

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The coming of the railroad in the sixties was a big event in the liues of Northfield cizizensg to them it meant quicker and easier transpor- tation of farm produce and flour from the mills.