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{{Infobox NRHP
| name         = Craigie Flour Mill Historical Marker
| nrhp_type    =
| image        = Craigie Flour Mill Marker.jpg
| caption      =
| nearest_city = [[Otter Tail Township, Minnesota]]
| coordinates  = {{coord|46|22|25|N|95|39|5|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin     = Minnesota#USA
| built        = {{Start date|1940}}
| architect    = [[Arthur R. Nichols]]; et al.
| architecture = NPS Rustic
| added        = January 16, 2003
| area         = less than one acre
| mpsub        = Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota MPS AD
| refnum       = 02001704<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
}}
The '''Craigie Flour Mill Historical Marker''' is a wayside rest on [[Minnesota State Highway 78]] in [[Otter Tail County, Minnesota]].  The site was designed by landscape architect [[Arthur R. Nichols]] and built by the [[National Youth Administration]] and the [[Minnesota Department of Transportation|Minnesota Highway Department]].  The style is [[National Park Service Rustic]] architecture.<ref name="nom">{{cite web|url=http://nrhp.mnhs.org/nomination/02001704.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Craigie Flour Mill Historical Marker|date=December 2, 2002|accessdate=2013-03-27}}</ref>{{rp|6}}
The plaque on the site reads:
<blockquote>Craigie Flour Mill. Near this spot James Craigie of Aberdeen, Scotland, who came to Otter Tail County about 1868 built the first grist mill in the county in 1870. The mill stones and wheel were imported from Scotland. Craigie and his wife were drowned in Otter Tail Lake in 1872 and after long litigation the mill was torn down.<ref name="nom"/>{{rp|8}}</blockquote>
This text was originally printed on a steel sign, measuring 3 feet by 5 feet, which was erected by the Otter Tail County Historical Society and dedicated at a meeting on June 25, 1939 that attracted more than 2000 people.  The steel plaque was replaced the following year with the more permanent wayside rest and monument.<ref name="nom"/>{{rp|11}}
The wayside rest is typical of the designs built by the Minnesota Highway Department around that time, with a curved drive that pulls off the main highway and a monument at the middle of the drive.  The [[millstone]]s and the iron [[water wheel]] are incorporated into the monument, though, which are an unusual feature for the historical markers designed by Nichols.  The ''Fergus Falls Daily Journal'' reported that a Mr. Mathews had pulled the millstones from the nearby Balmoral Creek.
<ref name="nom"/>{{rp|11–12}}
==References==
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{{National Register of Historic Places}}
[[Category:Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1940]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Otter Tail County, Minnesota]]
[[Category:New Deal in Minnesota]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Otter Tail County, Minnesota]]
[[Category:National Park Service rustic in Minnesota]]
[[Category:National Youth Administration]]
[[Category:Flour mills in the United States]]
[[Category:Roadside parks]]
[[Category:Arthur R. Nichols works]]
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