{"nrhp_refnum":"83003113","name":"Norway Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Clifton on FM 182","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clifton","county":"Bosque County","state":"TX","lat":31.69337960100006,"lon":-97.65700417199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","European","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Norway Mill is a two-story limestone mill building on FM 182, about 8 miles southwest of Clifton in Bosque County, Texas, built around 1870 beside a small stream.","why_significant":"It was the first mill to serve the Norwegian community in Bosque County and is the only industrial site in the thematic group of Norwegian settlement properties. The small community of Norway Mills grew up around it between about 1870 and 1890.","narrative":"Norway Mill is a massive two-story limestone building on FM 182, about eight miles southwest of Clifton in Bosque County, Texas. Alvin Reeder, Ole Canuteson, and Andrew Canuteson built it around 1870, assisted by Charlie Olson and Martin Shefstad. Steam engines powered the mill, drawing water from a nearby stream, and it operated until about 1890. It was the first mill to serve the local Norwegian community and is the only industrial site among the related Norwegian settlement properties. A small community, Norway Mills, grew up around it between about 1870 and 1890, though nothing of that town remains. The building is rectangular, with flat arches over its openings and traces of scored plaster once covering the stone. Original doors, sashes, and machinery are gone, and the engine room survives as ruins. Two mill stones were relocated, one to a nearby farmstead and one to the Bosque County Museum in Clifton. Hay is now stored on the ground floor.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Alvin Reeder, Ole Canuteson, and Andrew Canuteson, with the help of Charlie Olson and Martin Shefstad","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in fair condition and unoccupied; the first floor is used to store hay and a temporary metal roof covers the structure. Present use is listed as agriculture.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.117505-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/9683/40968342/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003113.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968342","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110001657"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bosque-county/norway-mill-83003113/"}