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Bob Moore salvaged 19th-century stone mills slated for demolition

Bob Moore · Bob's Red Mill: Bob Moore · May 21, 2018 · at 13:19

Bob Moore, founder of Bob's Red Mill, explains how he tracked down authentic antique milling equipment to start his milling enterprise.

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“Dewey was such a help. He found me a mill that was to be torn down in Fayetteville, North Carolina. So I ended up, for not a whole lot of money, With my garage stacked full of old, very ancient stone mills dated, 1870, 1860, 1880.”

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The claim, plainly

Bob Moore acquired antique stone mills dated from the 1860s to 1880s from a mill scheduled for demolition in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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Assessment

Multiple independent historical, biographical, and corporate sources corroborate Bob Moore's account. Following his research into traditional stone milling beginning in the late 1960s, Moore located and purchased 19th-century quartz millstones (dated between the 1860s and 1880s) alongside related equipment from a defunct mill scheduled for demolition in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He subsequently transported these millstones to California to establish Moore's Flour Mill in 1974.

Bob's Red Mill historical records document that Moore purchased traditional quartz millstones and equipment from a mill slated for demolition in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which were moved to Redding, California to open Moore's Flour Mill in 1974.
A 2012 profile in Gourmet Magazine and a 2023 industry profile in Blueprint Magazine confirm that Moore salvaged 19th-century stone milling equipment from a defunct mill in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
A 2004 corporate profile on Encyclopedia.com and Moore's February 2024 Washington Post obituary confirm the acquisition of multiple sets of 19th-century quartz millstones dating to the 1860s–1880s from a defunct mill site in North Carolina.

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