Osage Mills Dam

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Osage Mills Dam
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LocationN of Osage Mills on Little Osage Creek, Osage Mills, Arkansas
Coordinates 36°17′40″N94°16′3″W / 36.29444°N 94.26750°W / 36.29444; -94.26750 Coordinates: 36°17′40″N94°16′3″W / 36.29444°N 94.26750°W / 36.29444; -94.26750
Arealess than one acre
Built1890 (1890)
MPS Benton County MRA
NRHP reference No. 87002376 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 28, 1988

The Osage Mills Dam is a historic dam in rural Benton County, Arkansas. It impounds Little Osage Creek, just upstream of Mill Dam Road (County Road 47), between Rogers and the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. The dam was built c. 1890 out of coursed stone with a rusticated face. It was built to provide power to a grist mill that served the area, of which only a small portion of the millrace remains visible. The dam is the only known structure of its type in the county. [2]

The dam was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Osage Mills Dam". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-02-25.