Sunnyside Flour Mills

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a.k.a. Brose & Bro Flour Mill

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c1871	Brose & Bro open flour mill
1922
<1962	gone

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Ventured from a store on Water St selling boat supplies and groceries and opened a mill c1871 john j and george brose ran nicknamed the Sunny Side Mills brose bros (sunnyside flour mills) built new mill in rear of old one 1878 sunnyside mill geo brose sunnyside roller mills aka brose brothers sunnyside roller mill geo bros proprietor sunny side roller mills

later just geo 1881

fire 1920s

still sunnyside milling co 1940

torn down >1940 <1962

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likely errors from pictoral history>>>CONFIRM
originally 1869 (later akin-erskine mill when brose brothers retired) ? moved to 108 n governor (illinois and governor) ?

See also

Research notes

^{+ Show research notes} 1871-2 - 1872-3 cd - brose & bro prop. sunny side mills, n e c 3rd and wabash ave independence
1874 - 1878 cd - brose & bro prop. sunny side mills, 829 w ohio
1879 cd - brose bros prop. sunnyside mills
1881 cd - george brose prop. sunnyside mills successor to bros bros [TYPO]
1884 cd - sunnyside mills & elevator
1885 cd - brose geo
1888 map - listed as melrose [bought melrose old spot?, error?
1895 cd - g brose mill and elevator / sunnyside mills and elevator
1906 cd - brose geo
1910 cd - sunnyside flour mills
1911, 1922 - sunnyside flour mills 825-829 w ohio corner wabash