Tulloch Mill

The Locke mill, as it was first known, was completed January 15th, 1855, and first operated by David Locke as a grist mill. On August 31, 1856 it was bought by Hestres and Magendie. Most of the wood structure was lost to the flood of 1862. Several years later David Tulloch decided to rebuild the mill but out of stone. He hired stone mason Thomas Vison to build a stone mill house and dam upon the original site, which was to be powered by a water wheel. Tulloch reopened the flour mill and operated it until 1899, when it was converted into one of California’s first hydroelectric plants. Portions of the old underground pen stockes used to transport water to the generators can still be seen on the hillside behind the mill office.