Edina Mill

In the mid-1850s, small gristmills began to spring up along several creeks that ran through the land where much of the area's grain was grown.

In 1856, Jacob Elliot, Captain Richard Strout, Levi M. Stewart, and Joseph Cushman purchased land and constructed a mill on the Minnehaha Creek in present-day Edina.

Edina was a nickname for his birthplace in Edinburgh, Scotland, that appeared in a poem written by Scottish poet Robert Burns.

This dam severely cut the water flow of the Minnehaha Creek, turning it from a racing river to a meandering brook.

He used the mill to store grain until 1922 when the Thorpe Brothers Realtors bought the site for the development of a new residential community called the Country Club District.