Schech Mill

Infobox_nrhp | name =Schech Mill
nrhp_type =nrhp

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caption = Schech Mill in 1990
nearest_city= Caledonia, Minnesota
lat_degrees = 43
lat_minutes = 40
lat_seconds = 2.1
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 91
long_minutes = 34
long_seconds = 50
long_direction = W
locmapin = Minnesota
area =
built =1875
added = January 31, 1978
governing_body = Private
refnum=78001548cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

The Schech Mill is located in Beaver Creek Valley State Park in the U.S. state of Minnesota in the Driftless Area—an area in the American Midwest noted for its deeply carved river valleys. It is one of three mills in Minnesota still operating solely with water power and the only one to have its original stone. Built by John Blinn in 1876, it was purchased by a Minneapolis miller, Michael Schech who had emigrated from Bavaria, Germany. The mill produced cornmeal, rye buckwheat, wheat flour, graham flour, and whole wheat cereal, which was sold in Caledonia and Houston, Minnesota. In 1922 a concrete dam was built to replace the original wooden one.cite book|title=The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota|last=Nord|first=Mary Ann|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|date=2003|isbn=0-87351-448-3] [cite web| title =HISTORY. Built in 1876, read our mill's story| publisher =Schech's Mill| url =http://schechsmill.net/millhistory.htm| accessdate = 2007-11-12]

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