Craigie Flour Mill

Craigie Flour Mill is a Minnesota historical marker in Balmoral, Otter Tail County.

Trunk highway 78, Balmoral · location approximate

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Near this spot James Craigie of Aberdeen, Scotland, who came to Ottertail County about 1868 built the first grist mill in the county, completed in 1870. The mill stones and wheel were imported from Scotland. Craigie and his wife were drowned in Ottertail Lake in 1872, and after long litigation the mill was torn down.

Verbatim 1940 text, presented as a historical record, not current interpretation. Minnesota now calls the 1862 conflict the U.S.-Dakota War and has since replaced the wording on some of these signs.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1859 · Colton's Minnesota & Dakota (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Johnson's Minnesota (1869) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1870 · Burritt's Sectional Minnesota (1870) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1873 · Minnesota. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1912 · Battle Lake, Minnesota (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Johnson's Minnesota (1869), 1869, covering the location of Craigie Flour Mill, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Johnson's Minnesota (1869), 1869, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: Minnesota Historical Records Survey Project, Work Projects Administration, Guide to Historic Markers Erected by the State Highway Department Cooperating with the Minnesota Historical Society (1940)

Craigie Flour Mill

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