Editor’s note: Following is a brief selection of the contents of the history/photo book being created by the Sweet Home Genealogy Society, with expected publication on Dec. 10. Read the book for details.
John M. McKercher inherited the Finley Mill, on the Calapooia River east of Brownsville, after his brother Daniel, who managed the mill, was murdered in 1895.
The mill was powered by a water wheel supplied from a flume off the log dam.