Mr. Mace's lime kilns of long ago - a photo on Flickriver

Mr. Mace's lime kilns of long ago

            In the old center of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin just a stone's throw from this river's Lower Falls are two of the three ovens used to bake limestone so that the resulting powdery material could be used to make concrete, among other things. The nearby bronze plaque gives the outlines of the business operations begun in 1891 on the site of the former Charles Neha sawmill of 1858. The native people at the time of Euro-American occupation and settlement were Menomonee & Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians. "Wild rice" is the meaning of the name in the river and city. Size of annual proceeds, output, number of employees, and distribution of the lime produced here do not feature in the bronze marker. But seeing the early industrial enterprise through an archaeological lens would probably show both nearby and a few distant projects that made use of limestone quarried in the area and carted to these kilns for baking.

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Taken in: United States / Wisconsin / Village of Menomonee Falls / Menomonee Falls (show map)

Taken on: January 15, 2023

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