Gallego Flour Mills

The Gallego Flour Mills was a flour mill located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Founded by Joseph Gallego in the 1790s,[1][2] the mill gained international reputation for the superior type of flour that was shipped from there to Europe and South America.[3] Further, the mills became iconic image of the defeated south after Matthew Brady shot a photo of the Mills after much of the city burned in 1865.[4]

Ruins of the Gallego Flour Mills
Ruins of the Gallego Mills

At the time of their destruction, they were the largest of their kind in the world.[5][6]

References
  1. Dabney, Virginius (5 October 2012). Richmond: The Story of a City - Virginius Dabney. ISBN 9780813934303. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
  2. "American Miller and Processor". 1922. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
  3. "UR Scholarship Repository : History of Richmond as a port city". Schlorship.richmond.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
  4. "The charred remains of the Gallego Mills became an iconic image of the fall of the Confederacy and the utter devastation of the Civil War"
  5. "Alexander Gardner: [Ruins of the Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Virginia] (33.65.11,33.65.226) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". Metmuseum.org. 2014-06-02. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
  6. "Ruins of Gallego Flour Mills". Mdgorman.com. 2004-03-26. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
  • Loc.gov, Additional pictures of the mill

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