Missing Along Main Street: Dougall and Wellington Flour Mills

The Lowell Area Historical Museum presents a new weekly online series. Missing Along Main explores the buildings that once occupied Main Street but are no longer there.

Dougall & Wellington’s Flour Mills

Dougall & Wellington’s Flour Mills were located on the south side of Main Street directly across from today’s Museum. The mills were built in 1884 by Edwin R. Craw, who was one of the best practical millers and mill mechanics in the state. He was a local miller.

Going east along Main Street from Hudson Street, the Dougall Mills consisted of an office building, a milling building, and a steam engine building. The mills were steam-operated. Grinding and cleaning were done on the 1st floor; while bolting and purifying were done on the 2nd and 3rd floors. The mill was lit with kerosene lanterns and the office was heated with a wood stove. The capacity was 35 barrels per day. There was a grain warehouse just to the south, facing Hudson Street.

The 1892 Sanborn Map no longer shows the grain warehouse to the south of the office which existed in 1885.

The Dougall Mills were torn down by 1900.