[stately piano music]
- Gustave Clark: But this place has been in continual operation
now for 130 years.
We were strictly a flour mill the first period in time.
Then you had flour and feed running together
for a number of years.
Most of these towns around here came into being
around their own flour mill.
But they are where they are
because of that creek that runs through,
which was the energy source for the mill
long before electricity came along.
My grandfather built the dam out here in 1919,
and of course, was running the place from 1894 to then.
We all shared similar structures in our communities.
The old mill, the country school, the church.
Then you had community and people could live life
and spend their time here on Earth in a productive fashion.
[dreamy music]