The Schech Mill is a historic mill located in Houston County, Minnesota, United States. It is one of three watermills in Minnesota still operating solely with water power and the only one to have its original millstone. Built by John Blinn in 1876, it was purchased by a Minneapolis miller, Michael Schech who had emigrated from Bavaria, Germany. The mill produced cornmeal, rye buckwheat, wheat flour, graham flour, and whole wheat cereal, which was sold in Caledonia and Houston, Minnesota. In 1922 a concrete dam was built to replace the original wooden one.
Schech Mill is situated in the Driftless Area—a region of the American Midwest noted for its deeply carved river valleys.
Private tours of the mill can be arranged most summer weekends which include an authentic flour grinding demonstration.
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