Color image of a decorated Belgian Relief Flour sack, ca. 1914–1918.

Decorated Belgian Relief Flour sack

Decorated Belgian Relief Flour sack, ca. 1914–1918.

Black and white photograph of workers posed by Pillsbury “A” Mill in Minneapolis, ca. 1918.

Workers posed by Pillsbury “A” Mill

Workers posed by Pillsbury “A” Mill in Minneapolis, ca. 1918.

Black and white photograph showing the tents of D Company, First Minnesota Infantry, on guard duty at the Pillsbury mills, 1917.

Tents of D Company, First Minnesota Infantry, Pillsbury Mills

Tents of D Company, First Minnesota Infantry, on guard duty at the Pillsbury mills, 1917.

Colorized postcard depicting the Pillsbury milling complex, including the Pillsbury "A" Mill, ca. 1920.

Pillsbury milling complex

Postcard depicting the Pillsbury milling complex, including the Pillsbury "A" Mill, ca. 1920.

Black and white photograph of the the West Side Milling District of Minneapolis from the courthouse showing the extensive rail yards required for the shipping of grain and flour, ca. 1912. Photograph by Sweet.

View of the West Side Milling District

View of the West Side Milling District of Minneapolis from the courthouse showing the extensive rail yards required for the shipping of grain and flour, ca. 1912. Photograph by Sweet.

Black and white photograph of the West Side Milling District, Minneapolis, ca. 1920. Photograph by Hibbard Studio.

West Side Milling District, Minneapolis

West Side Milling District, Minneapolis, ca. 1920. Photograph by Hibbard Studio.

Minneapolis Flour-Milling Industry During World War I

The Minneapolis flour-milling industry peaked during World War I when twenty-five flour mills employing 2,000 to 2,500 workers played a leading role in the campaign to win the war with food. Minneapolis-produced flour helped to feed America, more than four million of its service personnel, and its allies.

Sketch showing the approximate boundaries of the contested zone between the Ojibwe and the Dakota in the late 1700s.

Map of contested zone

Sketch showing the approximate boundaries of the contested zone between the Ojibwe and the Dakota in the late 1700s. Adapted from Douglas A. Birk, “A Preliminary Archaeological Study of the Little Round Hill Site, Old Wadena Park, Wadena County, Minnesota,” 1991.

Google map of the Cadotte Post site with overlay of Douglas Birk’s 1972 sketch and an approximation of the location of the survey grid.

Map of Cadotte Post site

Google map of the Cadotte Post site with overlay of Douglas Birk’s 1972 sketch and an approximation of the location of the survey grid. From, Hayes, Katherine. Results of Survey and Excavation of the Little Round Hill (2WD16) and Cadotte Post (21WD17) Sites in Wadena County, Minnesota: A View of the Fur Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century. Report prepared for the Wadena County Historical Society, 2014.

Cadotte Trading Post

The Cadotte Post was a fur trade encampment in the late eighteenth century—one of three archaeological sites in Wadena County identified through Ojibwe oral tradition as a late-1700s trading fort. It stood just north of the Crow Wing River on its east bank, south and opposite the mouth of the Leaf River in what later became the Old Wadena County Park.

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