the blue door

 

In 2012 the Harvest Queen Mill was dethroned -- another Plainview business bites the dust.  Agribusiness conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland cut 1,000 jobs, including the 30 or so employees in Plainview, due to declining corn and soybean prices.The Plainview Harvest Queen Mill and Elevator was built in 1926 to mill wheat. The facility was converted in the 1970s to produce industrial starch from grain sorghum. ADM, an international corporation out of UK, acquired the facility in 1985.  A fixture on the Plainview skyline, this portion of the mill is about six stories with the blue door on the 3rd level.

 

Harvest Queen Mill and Elevator

1208 N. Columbia

Plainview, Texas

2.1.2015

photo courtesy of  Plainview Herald