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Minnesota's Flour Industry In The 1800s

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Minnesota’s Flour industry Flour was and still is important to the history and industry of the great state of Minnesota. The flour industry started in the mid 1800’s. Throughout the 1800’s they used very unsafe machines. Such as, they had pulleys and wheels that were spinning rapidly. If you were to fall, you might be torn to pieces. Charles Pillsbury arrived 15 years after the industry was up and running. He bought a failing flour mill, and most people thought he would fail. The flour industry was at its best in the 1890’s. Four of the milling corporations equaled 87% of the flour production. Among them was Charles Pillsbury’s company, the most productive of them all,also among them was Gold medals flour, General Mills, and the
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