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Photograph of Boston Flour Mill
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Boston Flour Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 structuress, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of Shedd on Boston Mill Rd., Shedd, 97377
  • When was it listed? August 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Harrisburg
  • National Register reference number. 79002117 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Boston Flour Mill: 6 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Saddle Butte PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Saddle ButteStonePast Producer
Slate PitStonePast Producer
Slate PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
United Presbyterian Church of Shedd1.4 miles1998
Porter-Brasfield House1.5 miles1980
Steven and Elizabeth Archibald Farmstead3.6 miles2004
Smith, James Alexander, and Elmarion, Barn and Lame-Smith House4.3 miles1999
Gus and Emma Stellmacher Farmstead4.4 miles1998
William Cochran Barn5.3 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002117 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Linn CountyAll 73 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.