Down at the foot of Florida street, the Walsh brothers set up the first steam-powered mill in St. Louis in 1827 when John Quincy Adams was President and California was part of Mexico. Farmers parked their wagons against the mill and went down to the big city while the millstones kept grinding corn into corn meal and wheat into flour. The stone chimney, at the left of the above photo, was a river landmark. Now the smokestacks of Laclede Power & Light Company Station E pierce the same bit of sky (at the left).
