At one time, almost every stream, creek, and river had at least one mill, using water to power the grinding stone, turning grain into flour. Now few mills are left in Indiana but the one in Story survived and the bottom floor is an event area and the top floor a place to stay.
A view of the general store, built in 1916 after the original burned down. The basement is The Story Still, a place to get a drink, so called because a still was found on the property during Prohibition. But, of course, stills were found throughout Brown County both before, during and after Prohibition. The main floor is the dining room with the original potbelly stove (electricity didn’t come to Story until around 1949), and the four rooms upstairs are for overnight guests and, some say, for the Blue Lady who checked in and never checked out over a century ago.
