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Originally Posted by Jimrob1
Sounds like a motel that has been turned into efficiencies.
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From 1820 until 2000 the town was a mill town. For the first century of that economy, men cut down trees, trimmed them and put the logs in the river to float down to the mill. The men would make the trip to the mill once a year to be paid and re-supply themselves for their next trip up river.
This building was constructed in 1903, as two three-story brick buildings sandwiched side-by-side. They served as a 'dry goods mercantile' to re-provision logging men before they headed back upriver to their camps.
In the 1920s the second and third floors became home to the Elk's lodge.
During WWII a large Cupola on the roof served as a lookout post for the Civil Defense volunteers on watch for German bombers.
The mill closed down in 2006. It had been the largest employer in the region.
Today the big economy seems to be a nearby state university.