According to historical sources during the years before the Great Northern War Kohila Settlement belonged to Kohila manor. On the western bank of the Keila River at the location of the present fuel warehouse of the Rapla Road Administration there used to be a water mill, a part of the base of which is still visible. It was all destroyed during the period when Estonia was ravaged by plague in 1700.

However, thanks to strength and hard work of the people life around Kohila started to develop again. Based on the requirements of the manor and the plough land, upon an order of the baron and under supervision of the steward, a one-floor water mill with the milling capacity of 1 ton of flour per day was built from flagstone in direct vicinity of the Sillaotsa tavern in the eastern bank of the Keila River  in 1875. The tenant of the manor Kaarel Uusmann became the first miller.

In 1905 the mill was sold to a younger manor tenant August Raudsepp, who held the position of a miller until 1921. When he became old he hired a new miller Eduard Kreitzberg.
By 1932 the mill again got a new owner – Ferdinand Janosson. This man had a very wide area of thought. He noticed development of Kohila and started capital repair of the mill which lasted 6 years. The second floor and another pair of millstones were added. Capacity of the mill increased to 7 tonnes of milled products per day. The Sillaotsa mill became a proper undertaking of Harjumaa that was very welcomed among farmers.

In 1940 during the Soviet occupation the mill was nationalised. Ten years later formation of new Raions resulted in the mill being subordinated to local Rapla industry, which created a service shop in Kohila to which the mill was attached.

1975 marked 100 years since creation of the Kohila mill and appearance of first signs of decomposition. In 1988 it was decided that the Sillaotsa mill has to be preserved and serve its purpose even in the 21st century. Restoration work on the decomposed building extension was started, the idea was to turn it into a cafe. Design work was trusted on the architect Liina Jaanus. By the early spring of 1992 the building work was done away with.

Sillaotsa mill was entered into the Raplamaa register of monuments of architecture. Today the mill is privately owned and run as a bar named Veski Baar.

See www.veski.ee