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Cheshire Number One Mill, Main & Grove Streets, Harrisville, Cheshire County, NH

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Cheshire Number One Mill, Main & Grove Streets, Harrisville, Cheshire County, NH

description

Summary

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum
Significance: The mill was built in 1847 and was operated continuously as a woolen textile mill from 1850 to 1971. It is the only granite building in the village. It is typical of the stone mills that were common in southeast Massachusetts and Rhode Island at the time of its construction.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-54
Survey number: HABS NH-173
Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1860 Subsequent Work

date_range

Date

1933 - 1970
person

Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Harris, Cyrus
Greenwood, Asa
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Location

Harrisville42.94508, -72.09647
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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