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9 APRIL 2019 | PAGE 42 <br />CITY OF EUGENE | STEAM PLANT REDEVELOPMENT DESIGN PROPOSAL <br />EXHIBITS <br />THOMPSON’S MILLS STATE <br />HERITAGE SITE <br />SHEDD, OREGON <br />RELEVANCE <br />• Ability to assess and apply strategic <br />restoration of a historic structure <br />One of two working watermills in Oregon, <br />Thompson’s Mills is the oldest, with water <br />rights going back to 1857. It gets it water from <br />the Calapooia River through a hand-dug canal <br />affectionately called the Sodom Ditch. It was an <br />active grain mill until nearly the end of the 20th <br />Century, though the health regulations in the <br />1940s forced the flour mill to become a feed mill. <br />Thompson’s Mills became a State Heritage Park <br />and museum in 2004. The concrete silos are most <br />likely the oldest slip-form concrete structures in <br />Oregon, dating from 1917. <br />Historic Building Consultant Don Peting started <br />working on Thompson’s Mill back in the early 1970s <br />when the last Thompson was still the owner. In <br />the 1990s, he was part of a team that did HABS <br />drawings, then later a condition assessment of <br />the mill. Later, he was part of the PNWFS Field <br />School in 2003 that brought students to work <br />on the Mills. The FS students’ work included <br />archaeology, timber frame construction and repair, <br />wood window construction and repair of the head <br />gates, and a study of water-powered engineering. <br />A decade later, Don and his students completed <br />a condition assessment of the mill house and <br />restoration has been continuing since. <br />Roles Donald Peting <br /> Historic Building Consultant <br />Timeline 1857-Present <br />Ap <br />r <br />i <br />l <br /> <br />24 <br />, <br /> <br />20 <br />1 <br />9 <br />, <br /> <br />Wo <br />r <br />k <br /> <br />Se <br />s <br />s <br />i <br />o <br />n <br /> <br />- <br />It <br />e <br />m <br /> <br />1