Maryland will lose its last commercial grain mill when a flour and corn mill on the banks of the Patapsco River across from old Ellicott City shuts down early next year, reports The Baltimore Sun.
Wilkins-Rogers Inc. plans to relocate its Oella milling operations somewhere in the Midwest.
The closure would end more than two centuries of milling in and around Ellicott City, dating back to the mill established on the same site by the Ellicott brothers in 1774.
Wilkins-Rogers has run the Frederick Road mill since 1969 and still employs about 30 people there.
