Isaac Ludwig Mill - Providence, OH

Isaac Ludwig Mill

Across the river from Grand Rapids is the ghost town of Providence. At one time, it was a stop on the Miami and Erie Canal that ran from Cincinnati to Toledo. The town was wiped out by a cholera epidemic in 1854 and never recovered. The mill and nearby canal lock are now part of the Toledo Metropark system and are operated by living historians in period costumes. The mill is both a sawmill and grist mill and the canal has an operational canal boat ride pulled by mules along a towpath.

Roller mills

Grain being fed into the grist mill

Mill stone

Roller mill up close

Flour packer

A smut separator. Yes, a smut separator

Flour bags of days gone by.

A GE hydroelectric power generator

Sawmill

Lathe

The office

Country strong

View from top floor of mill

RR bridge across the Maumee River

Miami and Erie Canal

Lock #44

Mule power

Canal boat coming trough the lock