When and how the industries of flour started in the late 1800’s.Lots of the industrialists were interested in the flour mills because they were the easiest to run out of the three main industries.Then later on a couple rich industrialists and a not as rich industrialist moved to minnesota to start companies and two of them did flour industries.That poor industrialist was no other than Charles pillsbury himself and the one who would soon become a very famous and rich man.The other man started a flour company called gold medal flour and was also a very big success along …show more content…
with pillsbury flour company.
How the industries were like at the best point of sales and other things that might have happened in history.Since so many people had opened flour mills in Minneapolis they nicknamed Minneapolis mill city.Since the mill city nickname for Minneapolis,minneaplois was now the flour capitol of the world.Because of all the success of selling goods lots of flour companies had growing businesses.Later on Chicago came the flour capitol of the world but if you go to Minneapolis there will still be real still standing flour mills.
How flour industries are like and how they relate to what we do today in are normal average everyday lives.Most of those industries are no longer open in Minnesota anymore or no longer open.Pillsbury is now a apartment building in minneapolis and lots of college kids rent apartments there because its kinda close to minnesota state university.Gold medal flour is now a giant museum that is inside the ruins of the gold medal flour factory.The museum in gold medal flour is also known as the very popular mill city museum.
Minneapolis actually used to be a very popular flour company city.It had tons of flour mills that ran on the water that came from the Mississippi River and the nearby st Anthony falls in Minneapolis Minnesota.The first time gold medal flour exploded the roof came flying off and they eventually rebuilt the factory it exploded again and then officially closed the factory down.Now it is a museum and you can actually step into the very old factory that once used to have lots of machines and workers working but is now just an empty building still standing on a island in Minneapolis in the middle of the mississsippi river.Did you also know that when the Mississippi River froze over during the winter they would keep the dam going so that the nearby flour companies could still run without
stopping