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The Keremeos Grist Mill is located in Keremeos, B.C. Barrington Price opened this water-powered mill on August 21, 1877. The mill was significant because Keremeos residents would no longer have to travel the 170 miles to Colville to get flour. Barrington Price had to give up the mill before the end of the century, because of financial difficulty. Today, the Keremeos Grist Mill has been converted to an exiting and informative historical site. The mill is visited by all members of the public and is featured as a tourist attraction.

Photos - Beside the General Store, Exhibit Building is a small open air shed with a few domestic goodies on display. A Stanley Fawcett wood stove (frames left and right), and a Moffat wood stove (center frame).

Photos - The Grist Mill and wooden walkway over the creek that runs beside the Mill. It took years of painstaking research to reassemble and restore the operating layout to its 1881 configuration. When the restoration of the mill began in the 1980s, the old machines and parts were found in a jumble on the lower level - with Price's Eureka Grain Cleaner actually holding up the sagging second floor! Careful analysis of every nail hole and wear mark inside the building has enabled the original position of each machine and pulley frame to be identified or calculated.

Photos - Inside the Keremeos Grist Mill from the second floor looking through the open door at the end of the wooden walkway (center row, frame left photo). Frame left shows a black and white photo of Barrington Price builder and founder of this mill. The wooden pulleys and machinery were once a part of the grain grinding process.

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