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The Grist Mill was built by hand in 1876 and 1877 with pit saw, broad ax, and adze by Barrington Price as a place of business. The mill and store were created to work together to fill the needs of local ranchers, native people, miners and travelers along the Dewdney Trail.Power from the wooden buckshot water wheel is transmitted through a series of pulleys and belts. Grain was first weighed then poured into an entry chute in a cleaning machine. A bucket elevator lifted the cleaned grain to the Barford and Perkins grinder, the blue colored steel roller mill manufactured in 1877. The Bolter separated flour through various grades of silk cloth on a hexagonal reel. The lower floor has an upright Eureka cleaning machine (a giant wooden vacuum cleaner) separating wheat, dust and chaff. In the center of the grinding platform is a vertical James Jones "New Process" stone grinder installed in 1881 and was considered to be the best in its day.

Photos - Moving now to the outside of the Keremeos Grist mill: The Pulley system that is attached to the Waterous Water Wheel (upper row, frame left) to operate the machinery inside. The Waterous Wheel has creek diversion channel to bring a constant flow of water under the blades of the wheel in order to rotate the wheel at a constant rate. Middle row, middle photo shows a wooden foot bridge over Keremeos Creek with the Grist Mill Visitors center in background.

Photos - After completing my exploration of the Keremeos Grist Mill, I headed toward Osoyoos along Highway 3 and stopped to photograph an old farm in Cawston. While I busily snapped frame after frame of the old buildings beside the highway, a long line of vintage cars passed by in convoy from Osoyoos to Keremeos.

Click here for more photos of the Keremeos Grist Mill for this day.