Lester Shingle Mill, 1602 North Eighteenth Street, Sweet Home, Linn County, OR
Summary
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
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Sweet Home, 44.40107, -122.72302
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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