Daniel Cragin Mill

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
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Water-powered mill
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Location	West of town of Wilton at the junction of Davisville Road and Burton Hwy
Nearest city	Wilton, New Hampshire
Coordinates	42°51′22″N 71°47′20″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

• 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

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

External links

• Frye's Measure Mill official website