Clark's Flour Mill

Flour was produced in the fine, upstanding limestone building of Clark's Mill for 110 years. Now restored by the Historic Places Trust, with its machinery conserved in working order, the mill is an important survivor from the days of local rural industry in New Zealand in a region in which growing grain brought prosperity. A large shed in front of the mill houses a fine collection of old farm and other machinery, the property of the North Otago Vintage Machinery Club.
New Zealand’s only surviving water-powered flour mill, Clarks Mill is also known as the Maheno Valley Roller Mills. The mill and its specially constructed millrace drawing water from the Kakanui River was built around 1865. At first wheat and oats were ground using grindstones powered by a water wheel. In the 1880s was converted to roller machinery powered by water turbines.