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The Challenge LineBy Dan Sauter508 Bernadette Lane Batavia, Illinois 60510 Challenge stack as it looks today. The Challenge Windmill and Feed-mill Company of Batavia, Illinois was founded in 1867 by Nelson Burr and Hugh M. Armstrong. They chose a site along the east bank of the Fox River. Today the chimney of the foundry still stands with the black fire stones spelling, CHALLENGE, in the white stone stack. However, the sight of smoke being expelled from the chimney, a familiar sight to Batavians for over seventy-five years, has not been seen since the late 1940's. The first couple of years the company employed only two hands, but the third year thirty or forty men were employed. This increase, which continued, was due to many factors, one being that Nelson Burr had invented a successful grinding surface out of metal. Many inventors had attempted this, but in ... 806 of 7535 characters shown.
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