Roxboro Cotton Mill Explained

Roxboro Cotton Mill
Coordinates:36.3928°N -78.9783°W
Built:, 1924
Architecture:Italianate, Slow-burn Heavy Timber
Added:August 27, 2009
Refnum:09000660

Roxboro Cotton Mill is a historic cotton mill complex located at Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina. It was built in 1899, and is a two-story, banked, textile mill with Italianate-style influence and slow-burning heavy timber frame construction. An addition to the original mill building was built in 1924, and together they measure approximately 525 feet long (68 bays). The building housed the spinning and carding operations. The mill remained in operation until 1999.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carrie Ehrfurth. Roxboro Cotton Mill . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . April 2009 . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.