Great Falls Mill Ruin, Rockingham, North Carolina
Great Falls Mill Ruin (Rockingham, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- Great Falls Mill Ruin, Rockingham, North Carolina
- Description:
- View, Great Falls Mill Ruin, Rockingham, North Carolina
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Italianate (North American architecture styles)
Mills and mill-work
Ruins
- Original Format:
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Black and white print (photograph)
- Extent:
- 3 x 3-1/2 in.
- Item identifier:
- bh0142p01
- Created Date:
- circa
- Genre:
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Architectural photographs
- Location:
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Rockingham (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Built Heritage
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Historic Architecture Research. Project Records (UA110.041) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
- Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Great Falls Mill Ruin (Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina)
- Built:
- Demolished:
- Community:
- Rockingham
- State:
- North Carolina
- Provenance note:
- Great Falls Manufacturing Company, first owner
- Historical note:
- Richmond Manufacturing Company was charted December 1833, Chapter LXIX, by Walter Francis Leak, Francis T. Leak, General Alfred Dockery, and others. It began operations on Falling Creek as a yarn mill. It was the fifth oldest cotton mill in the state. The Old Clark Grist Mill of about 1800 was located on the same site. The Richmond Mill was burned by Sherman's army about March 1865. It was rebuilt by Walter Francis Leak as Great Falls Mill. Water Power Development provided the motive power for the mill. The significance of the mill lies in the part it played in the beginning of industrialization of the south. The mill ceased operation during the Great Depression and burned in 1972. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Architectural note:
- The structure typifies the industrial architecture of the style and era.
- Location:
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Rockingham (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Historic buildings
Lost architecture
Mills and mill-work
National Register of Historic Places