PROMOTING THE COMMUNITY
Shop Eagles Market & Gas - Rebuild the Butte Creek Mill L uke Ozcelik, local owner of Eagles Market and Gas on Hwy. 62 in Eagle Point, will be sponsoring a month of gratitude by donating a portion of the gasoline sales during the month of March to the Butte Creek Mill Foundation in Eagle Point to benefit the continued
had become not only a place for locals to shop, but a travel destination for tourists from around the world as the only water-powered flour mill west of the Mississippi. “Enter as Strangers, Leave as Friends” was a sign behind the counter as well as the motto in the Country Store.
reconstruction of the historic flour mill. The Butte Creek Mill was established in 1872, when Eber Emory and John Daley purchased the land along Little Butte Creek in Eagle Point for a flour mill. Constructed with wood from Big Butte Sawmill in Butte Falls, giant 12” and 14” squaew beams were hand hewn and transported via horse and wagon to bring Emory and Daley’s dream to life. The iconic water-powered flour mill had been crafted by hand, down to the oak pegs holding each beam into place and the original millstones quarried near Paris, France. Nearly 150 years later, what once stood as a flour mill for the Rogue Valley community,
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