Daniel Cragin Mill

United States historic place
Daniel Cragin Mill
Water-powered mill
42°51′22″N 71°47′20″W / 42.85611°N 71.78889°W / 42.85611; -71.78889
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
BuiltOriginally built 1817
Mill founded 1858
Built byEliphalet Putma, Daniel Cragin, Whitney Frye
NRHP reference No.82001681[1][2]
Added to NRHPMarch 23, 1982

The Daniel Cragin Mill, known in the twenty-first century as the Frye's Measure Mill, is a historic watermill established in 1858. The mill was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

The listing included five contributing buildings on 4 acres (1.6 ha).[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "New Hampshire's 2008 Seven to Save" (PDF). New Hampshire Preservation Alliance. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  3. ^ "Historic mill produces while it is restored". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 13, 1987. p. 445.
  4. ^ "Frye's Measure Mill Founder: Daniel Cragin 1837–1922". Frye's Measure Mill. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  5. ^ "Antique American Daniel Cragin, Wilton, NH dry measure wooden container". New Hampshire Preservation Alliance. 2021. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  6. ^ "The Whitney Frye Era 1909–1961: Building the Self-Contained Mill". Frye's Measure Mill. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
  7. ^ "The Harland Savage, Sr. Years. The Skill of the Millwright, Handed Down 1948 to Present". Archived from the original on May 13, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
  8. ^ "Mill makes wooden boxes the old-fashioned way—by hand". New Hampshire Magazine. Bride NH: Yankee Publishing Inc. 2021. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
  9. ^ Harland H. Savage, Jr. (January 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Daniel Cragin Mill / Frye's Measure Mill / E.B. Frye & Son". National Park Service. Retrieved March 6, 2023. With accompanying 11 photos from 1978-80

Sources

  • Adamowicz, Joe, The New Hiking the Monadnock Region: 44 Nature Walks and Day-Hikes in the Heart of New England, Publisher UPNE. Published 2007. ISBN 1-58465-644-1
  • Dell'Orto, Michael G. et al., Wilton, Temple, and Lyndeborough, Arcadia Publishing, Published 2003. ISBN 0-7385-1220-6
  • Livermore, Abiel Abbot et al., History of the Town of Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Marden & Rowell Printers. Published 1888. Lowell, Massachusetts

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