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Lester Shingle Mill, 1602 North Eighteenth Street, Sweet Home, Linn County, OR

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Lester Shingle Mill, 1602 North Eighteenth Street, Sweet Home, Linn County, OR

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Significance: Melvin L. Lester built a shingle mill in Sweet Home, Oregon, in 1951-52 after operating a shingle mill in nearby Foster, Oregon. The family-owned Sweet Home mill ran for nearly twenty years before a fire destroyed it in 1970. The Lester family rebuilt the mill and operates it in much the same manner as small-scale shingle mills were operated in the early twentieth century.
Survey number: HAER OR-85

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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