William and Robert Strowig and the latter’s father-in-law, John Riederer purchased property on the banks of Mill Creek at Snomoko Road and in 1879 constructed a mill to produce flour. The mill was a 26-foot x 36-foot building, three stories high, and it had the capacity to produce 75 barrels of flour, daily. In 1913 when small mills became unprofitable, the Strowigs closed the mill, and slowly, over the following years, the building collapsed and was finally removed in 1972.