The Alley Spring Roller Mill, also known as Red Mill, is a historic

grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...

located in the

Ozark National Scenic Riverways The Ozark National Scenic Riverways is a recreational unit of the National Park Service in the Ozarks of southern Missouri in the U.S. The park was created by an Act of Congress in 1964 to protect the Current and Jacks Fork rivers, and it was fo ...

near Eminence,

Shannon County, Missouri Shannon County is a county in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,031. Its county seat is Eminence. The county was officially organized on January 29, 1841, and was named in honor of ...

. It was built in 1893, and is a 2 1/2-story, rectangular frame building on a

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

block foundation. It measures 32 feet by 42 feet and houses four steel rollers and a single stone burr. (includes 4 photographs from 1976) In 2017, the mill was featured in the

U.S. Mint The United States Mint is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury responsible for producing coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce, as well as controlling the movement of bullion. It does not produce paper money; that ...

America the Beautiful Quarters series. The design is an image of Alley Mill that was created by Renata Gordon and sculpted by Ron Sanders. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1981.

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Grinding mills on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Industrial buildings completed in 1893 Buildings and structures in Shannon County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Shannon County, Missouri 1893 establishments in Missouri {{ShannonCountyMO-NRHP-stub