The Neligh Mill State Historic Site is operated by the Nebraska State Historical Society. The mill, built in 1873, is the only nineteenth century flour mill in the state with all of its original equipment intact. The mill complex includes the main mill building, the elevators, the office, and reconstructed flume and penstock. The history of the Neligh Mill spans almost 100 years, from construction in 1873 to its final days as a feed mill in 1969. If you have any questions regarding the Neligh Mill, just ask the curator.
Historic photographs document the physical changes to the mill over the years.
Other sources of mill information. As settlement moved across Nebraska, the need arose for flour mills to grind the settlers' cereal grains into flour and other mill products. The Neligh Mill served that capacity for over seventy-five years and was one of Nebraska's major flouring mills. Gallaway improved the brush dam on the Elkhorn River, rebuilt the flume, and installed a horizontal water turbine to power the drive works in the basement of the mill. Two run of stone burrs were put in, and the mill commenced grinding on August 29, 1874.