Vaucluse Mill Village Historic District Explained

Vaucluse Mill Village Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Coordinates:33.615°N -81.8033°W
Built:1877
Architecture:Bungalow/craftsman, Greek Revival, Shot gun
Added:May 7, 1996
Refnum:96000494

The Vaucluse Historic District, located in Vaucluse, South Carolina in Aiken County.[1] [2] The district includes the mill, number of accompanying buildings, and over eighty mill village homes. The district is noteworthy in that it is considered to be oldest mill village in the state. No less significant, the mill building, completed in 1877, was based on the plans of engineers A. D. Lockwood & Company of Providence, Rhode Island. The Lockwood successor firm, Lockwood, Greene & Company, would later design around fifty of South Carolina's textile manufacturing facilities. The Vancluse Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 7, 1996.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Downey . Tom . Vaucluse Mill Village Historic District . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . May 4, 1995 . 28 November 2012.
  2. Web site: Vaucluse Mill Village Historic District, Aiken County (S.C. Hwy. 191, Vaucluse) . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 28 November 2012.