Taylor and Kemp Flour Mill Traditional Cache
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Taylor and Kemp Flour Mill
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A small park right by the Yakima River where you can relax and get a great view of the river.
"Standing at this site in 1886 one would have seen Colonel William Farrand Prosser negotiating with the chief of the Yakima Indian tribe camped along the Yakima river for Lewis Heinzerling to build his dream mill when this was still Washington Territory. This was one of the first mills erected in the state and at one time, the only one grinding wheat flour by harnessing the waters of the Yakima River with a dam to power the mill stones.
In 1888 the Honorable George S. Taylor, who came to this valley in 1866, purchased the mill and placed his young son, Emery, in charge. Ezra Kemp, a pioneer Englishman, who settled here in 1882, acquired a half ownership in 1899. The firm was henceforth known as Taylor and Kemp Flour Mill. In 1906 the Northern Pacific left Prosser with a carload of flour for the "San Francisco Sufferers" of the great earthquake and in 1939 over 10,000 barrels were shipped to China. For 58 years the Taylor and Kemp Flour Mill provided a substantial payroll to this community. This historic landmark was struck by lightning and destroyed in a spectacular fire on August 23, 1945." (on site marker description)
Please bring your own pencil/pen and beware of muggles watching you from the surrounding neighborhood or passing cars.
FTF prize is 1 battery as 2 batteries wouldn't fit in there together.
Good luck!
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