White's Mill (Casa Blanca, Arizona)

White's Mill was a trading post and flour mill owned by Ammi M. White from 1860 to 1867. It was located among the Pima Villages near the Butterfield Overland Mail station, at what is now Casa Blanca, Arizona, during the American Civil War.[1] Sold to Bichard & Company, by White in 1867 the mill site was destroyed by an extraordinary flood in September 1868.[2] The mill machinery was dug out of the ruins and a new mill built by Bichard & Company at Adamsville, Arizona.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Wilson, John P. Peoples of the Middle Gila: A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas, 1500's-1945, Las Cruces, N.M., 1999. pp.162 181-182, 218-219
  2. ↑ The Weekly Arizona Miner, September 26, 1868, p. 5 col. 2

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