Wait's Mill Park is Underway

WAITSBURG – Local historians are probably aware that the village of Delta (later founded as Waitsburg) grew up around a flour mill, built by Sylvester Wait, which began operations in 1865. But did you know that Wait's Mill set a truly impressive world record in 1908? Or that, on the way here, Sylvester Wait lost the saddlebags containing his life savings – the money he was going to use to start operations at Wait's Mill?

To learn more about that world record and to find out what happened to those saddlebags full of money, just walk across the Main Street Bridge, take a right through Rankin Par...