Mother Road Brewing
A steam laundry, a sawmill, amputated limbs in the sheets, and the brewery that brought the building back to life.
🍺Book Your TourThe History
The Milum Building was constructed in 1925 as a steam laundry, one year before Route 66 was commissioned. It served the motels, boarding houses, and businesses that lined the highway through Flagstaff's Southside.
The laundry also handled linens for the sawmill and the local hospital. In an era before modern medical waste protocols, the laundry workers occasionally found amputated limbs mixed in with the hospital sheets. The stories are documented.
The Route 66 Story
Mother Road Brewing brought the Milum Building back to life, and named itself after the highway. What happened in this building between the laundry era and the brewery era involves ghost stories, an abandoned Southside, and a community that refused to let go.
The rest of this story? You will hear it on the tour.
This Is Stop 11 of 16
on the Route 66 Walking Tour of Flagstaff.