Gallego Flour Mills

{{short description|Flour mill in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.}}

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The Gallego Flour Mills was a flour mill located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Founded by Joseph Gallego in the 1790s,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Auw-cdKZmnoC&q=Gallego+Flour+Mill+1796&pg=PA62 |title=Richmond: The Story of a City - Virginius Dabney |date= 5 October 2012|isbn=9780813934303 |accessdate=2015-06-05|last1=Dabney |first1=Virginius }}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JpZFAQAAMAAJ&q=Gallego+Flour+Mill+founded&pg=PA355 |title=American Miller and Processor |year=1922 |accessdate=2015-06-05}} the mill gained international reputation for the superior type of flour that was shipped from there to Europe and South America.{{cite web|url=http://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=masters-theses |title=UR Scholarship Repository : History of Richmond as a port city |publisher=Scholarship.richmond.edu |accessdate=2015-06-05}} Further, the mills became iconic image of the defeated south after Mathew Brady shot a photo of the Mills after much of the city burned in 1865."The charred remains of the Gallego Mills became an iconic image of the fall of the Confederacy and the utter devastation of the Civil War"

At the time of their destruction, they were the largest of their kind in the world.{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.65.11,33.65.226 |title=Alexander Gardner: [Ruins of the Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Virginia] (33.65.11,33.65.226) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |publisher=Metmuseum.org |date=2014-06-02 |accessdate=2015-06-05}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mdgorman.com/Photographs/Ruins%20of%20Gallego%20Flour%20Mills.htm |title=Ruins of Gallego Flour Mills |publisher=Mdgorman.com |date=2004-03-26 |accessdate=2015-06-05}}