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]
Daniel Cragin Mill | |
 Water-powered mill | |
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| Location | West of town of Wilton at the junction of Davisville Road and Burton Hwy |
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| Nearest city | Wilton, New Hampshire |
| Coordinates | 42°51′22″N 71°47′20″W / 42.85611°N 71.78889°W |
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | Originally built 1817 Mill founded 1858 |
| Built by | Eliphalet Putma, Daniel Cragin, Whitney Frye |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001681[1][2] |
| Added to NRHP | March 23, 1982 |
The listing included five contributing buildings on 4 acres (1.6 ha).[9]
See also
edit- Hamblet-Putnam-Frye House, the Frye's summer residence west of the mill
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "New Hampshire's 2008 Seven to Save" (PDF). New Hampshire Preservation Alliance. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
- ^ "Historic mill produces while it is restored". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. September 13, 1987. p. 445.
- ^ "Frye's Measure Mill Founder: Daniel Cragin 1837–1922". Frye's Measure Mill. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
- ^ "Antique American Daniel Cragin, Wilton, NH dry measure wooden container". New Hampshire Preservation Alliance. 2021. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- ^ "The Whitney Frye Era 1909–1961: Building the Self-Contained Mill". Frye's Measure Mill. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Mill makes wooden boxes the old-fashioned way—by hand". New Hampshire Magazine. Bride NH: Yankee Publishing Inc. 2021. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ 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
edit- 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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