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Photograph of Cedarburg Woolen Co. Worsted Mill
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Cedarburg Woolen Co. Worsted Mill

Built in 1880 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Worsted Mill is a former woolen mill on the Milwaukee River in Grafton, Wisconsin. In the late-1800s, the Cedarburg Woolen Company in neighboring Cedarburg decided to expand their production by opening a second mill.”

Wikipedia article Cedarburg Woolen Co. Worsted Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Ozaukee County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1880, Italianate architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 10 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1350 14th Ave., Grafton, 53024
  • When was it listed? June 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Mills of Grafton TR
  • Village. Grafton village
  • When was it built? 1880
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83003408 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cedarburg Woolen Co. Worsted Mill between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources180850
23 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190704
31 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19700
26 May 2018Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMUD LAKE BOARDWALK FIRE
25 May 2020Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20675
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources190468
3 April 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources200365
28 April 2018Debris and open burning6.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18486

Every fire recorded in Ozaukee County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cedarburg Woolen Co. Worsted Mill: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cedarburg StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
H.F. Prahl Corp. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maple Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rowe Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ozaukee County

Storms near this property

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grafton, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindGrafton$30,000Powerful thunderstorm wind gusts up to 52 knots (60 mph) toppled several large trees and damaged some power-lines.
July 2005LightningGrafton$20,000Lightning struck a house, setting it on fire.
August 2002LightningGrafton$15,000no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGrafton$10,000A swath of tree damage over several blocks including a large tree branch down on a home and a large tree uprooted.
July 1998LightningGrafton$10,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGrafton$7,000Many trees knocked down and laying in roads. Shopko garden center damaged.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGrafton$5,000no account filed
July 1997LightningGrafton$200Lightning struck a fuse box at a Wisconsin Electric power company, leaving 150 homes without power for 5 hours.
May 2008HailGrafton-In addition to the hail, wind gusts were in the 35 to 43 knot range (40 to 50 mph), resulting in some broken small branches.
May 2024HailGrafton-no account filed
April 2023HailGrafton-no account filed
April 2020HailGrafton-no account filed
April 2020HailGrafton-no account filed
April 2020HailGrafton-no account filed
April 2020HailGrafton-no account filed
September 2006HailGrafton-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindGrafton-no account filed
May 1999FloodGrafton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ozaukee County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Grafton Flour Millunder 500 feet1983
Milwaukee Falls Lime Company0.8 miles2012
Columbia Historic District1.6 miles1992
Washington Avenue Historic District1.7 miles1986
Hilgen and Wittenberg Woolen Mill1.8 miles1978
Cedarburg Mill1.9 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003408 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ozaukee CountyAll 38 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.