Lowellville: The Valley's Flour and Grain Center

Lowellville: The Valley's Flour and Grain Center. . , The very first grist mill was built in Lowellville by John McGill shortly after he settled here around 1800. Over the years several more grist and flouring mills were established along the banks of the Mahoning River. At one time, the villages of Lowell (on the north bank of the river) and McGillsville (on the south bank of the river) were the main producers of grain and flour in the Valley., A later mill was the Lowell Milling Co. which had the capacity to produce 725 barrels of flour per day., From 1839 until 1872, the Pennsylvania-Ohio Canal (also known as the Mahoning Cross-Cut Canal) traversed the village and ran parallel to Water Street giving the street its original mills and other businesses an economical way to transport their goods across name of Canal Street. The canal brought commerce to the village and provided the flouring approximately 82 miles of water way between Akron, Ohio and New Castle, Pennsylvania.