As It Was: Valley's first flour mill made way for Ashland park

In August 1909, Judge C.B. Watson eulogized the old flour mill in Ashland, which had been torn down and burned two weeks earlier to make way for what would become Lithia Park.Speaking to pioneers gathered at Ashland's Chautauqua building, Judge Watson observed, "The pioneers are passing, one by one, and so, too, are the material structures of their handiwork." He added, in the flowery oratory of the time, "Yet it seems a fit and proper thing that it (the mill), like the pioneers [...]