Mapleton borough
A Whole Mill For Barrel Heads
Did you know? Mapleton had a mill that made barrel heads. The Kindig Heading Mill stood between the U. B. Cemetery and Hares Valley Creek, and heads for whiskey and molasses barrels were manufactured there.
In good times the factory employed twelve to fifteen men. Its lumber came from local sawmills.
The flood of 1889 destroyed the Kindig Heading Mill. The same flood destroyed the Mapleton tannery, which had employed fifty men in 1883.
Sources
- Mapleton Centennial, 1866 to 1966 (souvenir book, Mapleton Depot, 1966)
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