Six thousand people attend the centennial celebration of the mill. The business, no longer commercially viable, is closed. Nine tons of cast iron and steel from the mill are donated as scrap for the war effort. Kroh Brothers Realty buys the property. The old mill, now an eyesore and safety hazard, is torn down.
Landowners donate three acres of the mill site to the city.
1992 Home of Bill Crotty, last building in the City of Dallas is razed. The Sesquicentennial of the Great Migration of 1843 on the Oregon Trail is celebrated at Watts Mill Park.