Balmoral Mill Dam, on Mill Creek, Eagle Township, Richland County, Wisconsin, ca. 1910

Newspaper Clipping Description: Black and white picture of mill, damn and hillside behind the millpond. Front Print: “Since 1898 Mill Dam has Produced Power For Muscoda, This picture, uncovered recently by S. H. Gillette who estimates that he took the shot perhaps as much as 50 years ago, shows the Mill Dam northwest of Muscoda. However, although this picture may be 50 years old, Muscoda has been supplied with water produced electricity for longer than that from the plant on the Mill Creek in Eagle township. It was in 1898 that the Rodolf brothers put in the first generator at the dam to supply the village of Muscoda with electricity using a single phase, 133 cycle generator. A dam at the Eagle township site goes back to 1841 when Tom Parish built a dam and a saw mill on the bank of the Mill creek. The waters of the creek have been working for the betterment of this area ever since. A flour mill and then a feed mill followed the saw mill at the location. The feed mill operated on water