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Food & Drink
item 2 — this section's foundation article
The town's food industry started, as its export trade did, at the mill: in 1876 F. Brown "started the mill in New Carlisle, three run of stone" — the Chapman sketch's phrase — after twenty years of merchandising and milling in Franklin County; the mill ground on the town's edge ground the prairie's wheat for the town's tables and the shippers' trade alike. The course runs from the sketch roll: Fred G. Miller's saw-mill of 1880 stands beside the grist trade in the settlement generation's mixed milling, and by the 1916–17 roll the trade is incorporated as the New Carlisle Milling Co — flour first, in name as in fact.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), sketches of F. Brown and Fred G. Miller (this build's Notable People); Polk's roll, 1916–17 (the New Carlisle Milling Co), in this build's Businesses.