Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company was an American flour milling company that operated about one-quarter of the mills in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when the city was the flour milling capital of t
Railways at Northwestern (left) and General Mills, (center right)
Loading flour in a boxcar, 1939
Sign for Ceresota brand flour
"The Million Bushel Elevator," Elevator A built in 1908
Charles M. Loring
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Charles Morgridge Loring was an American businessman, miller and publicist. Raised in Maine to be a sea captain, Loring instead became a civic leader in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he was a wealthy f
Flour leaving the Holly Mill, 1870s
Today the Soo Line is part of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Minneapolis Grain Exchange