Glencoe Mill Village Historic District

Glencoe Mill Village Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Glencoe Mill, HAER Photo, April 1978
Location	Off NC 62 at Haw River, Glencoe, North Carolina
Coordinates
Area	105 acres (42 ha)
Built	1880 (1880)-1882
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP Reference #	79001654
Added to NRHP	February 16, 1979

Glencoe Mill Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Glencoe, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 48 contributing buildings and 6 contributing structures built between 1880 and 1882 in Glencoe. The district consists of three parts: 1) a manufacturing and commercial complex; 2) a power and water system; and 3) a residential and social unit. The complex includes a three-story, Italianate style main mill building, a wheel house, a one-story picker house, a dye-house, finishing room and napper house, cotton warehouses and other storage buildings, and an office and company store complex. The power and water system includes a concrete dam across the Haw River, tail race, and a generating plant. The residential and social unit includes 41 frame dwellings, some with detached kitchens and outbuildings, a lodge, and the ruins of the village church.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

External links

• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NC-6, "Glencoe Cotton Mills, State Routes 1598 & 1600, Glencoe, Alamance County, NC", 17 photos, 3 measured drawings, 23 data pages, 2 photo caption pages