Adluh Flour

About

Purveyors of the daily grind & neon at night, our "table tested" products have been makin' it grain in Columbia's Congaree Vista for more than 100 years!

Story

Adluh Flour Mills produces flour and cornmeal products in a plant that is listed on the National Register of Historic Properties. In 1942 there were 42 operating mills located in South Carolina. Today only one of these remains-Adluh Flour Mills in Columbia, South Carolina.

Adluh Flour Mills began in Columbia, SC around 1900. It was initially operated and controlled by B.R. Crooner and family. In 1920 the company merged with the Columbia Grain and Provision Co., owned by J. H. Hardin. These families operated the mill until First Commercial National Bank took over the operations under foreclosure. The Allen family from Wadesboro, NC, bought the plant in June 1926 from the bank and have operated it ever since. The Allens have been operating grits mills in Wadesboro, Peachland, and Mebane, North Carolina since the early 1800's. In 1936 the family decided to move its Mebane plant to Greenwood, SC, where it began grinding and producing flour, corn meal, and feeds in 1937. Of the two South Carolina mills, only the Columbia mill still open. It produces flour, cornmeal, mixes, breaders, and feed products today--grinding wheat and yellow corn that is almost exclusively grown in South Carolina, and white corn from Kentucky and Tennessee farmers.

Quality has been the one feature that has allowed this plant to flourish while others have closed. As in 1900, stones are still used today to produce the specialty grits items. Without this emphasis on "Same Today, Same Always" quality, the company could never have survived the shift in consumption from local to regional to national brands over the last 100 years. Generations of customers know that they can always trust their prized recipes to come out right using Adluh products.

The Allen family appreciates the support that our consumers customers, neighbors, and suppliers have given us for so many years. We pledge to continue to provide only the finest quality "Table-Tested" products for which we are now known.