Since the fire they have held their meetings in their old room in Hack s Hall. The lodge has thirty-five members, comprised of the solid and influential men of Robinson and vicinity. A steam grist-mill was built in 1870 by D. P. Williams, at a point south of the railway. After the burning of the old mill no steps were taken to supply its place until 1880, when L. C. Parker erected, on the north bank of the river the mill now in use. This structure is 24x36 feet in size and two stories in height.
Power is furnished by an engine of forty-horse power.
In this form it was twenty by sixty feet. It was purchased in 1880 by the Gregg Brothers Grain Company, of St. Joseph, Mo., and enlarged to 48x110 feet. It is two stories in height and has a capacity of 15,000 bushels of grain. Power is furnished by an engine of twenty horse-power. The town had, in 1882, a population of 300.