Daniel Cragin Mill Explained

Daniel Cragin Mill
Location:	West of town of Wilton at the junction of Davisville Road and Burton Hwy
Nearest City:	Wilton, New Hampshire
Coordinates:	42.8561°N -71.7889°W
Built:	Originally built 1817 Mill founded 1858
Builder:	Eliphalet Putma, Daniel Cragin, Whitney Frye
Refnum:	82001681^[1]
Added:	March 23, 1982
Area:	4acres

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.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

The listing included five contributing buildings on 4acres.^[8]

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

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.
• Dell'Orto, Michael G. et al., Wilton, Temple, and Lyndeborough, Arcadia Publishing, Published 2003.
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: New Hampshire's 2008 Seven to Save. New Hampshire Preservation Alliance. January 28, 2019.
2. News: Historic mill produces while it is restored . The Boston Globe . 445 . Boston, Massachusetts. September 13, 1987.
3. Web site: Frye's Measure Mill Founder: Daniel Cragin 1837–1922. Frye's Measure Mill. January 28, 2019.
4. Web site: Antique American Daniel Cragin, Wilton, NH dry measure wooden container. 2021. New Hampshire Preservation Alliance. March 25, 2021.
5. Web site: The Whitney Frye Era 19091961: Building the Self-Contained Mill. Frye's Measure Mill. January 28, 2019.
6. Web site: The Harland Savage, Sr. Years. The Skill of the Millwright, Handed Down 1948 to Present. . April 25, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080513163208/http://www.fryesmeasuremill.com/history3.html . May 13, 2008 . dead .
7. Web site: Mill makes wooden boxes the old-fashioned way—by hand . New Hampshire Magazine. Yankee Publishing Inc.. 2021 . Bride NH . March 26, 2021.
8. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=82001681}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Daniel Cragin Mill / Frye's Measure Mill / E.B. Frye & Son ]. National Park Service. Harland H. Savage, Jr. . January 1979 . March 6, 2023. With