Easley Mill

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Easley Mill
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Location601 South 5th Street, Easley, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°49′27″N82°36′28″W / 34.82417°N 82.60778°W / 34.82417; -82.60778 Coordinates: 34°49′27″N82°36′28″W / 34.82417°N 82.60778°W / 34.82417; -82.60778
Built1900 (1900)
Architect Lockwood, Greene & Co.
NRHP reference # 09000818 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 23, 2013

Easley Mill is a historic mill complex in Easley, South Carolina. The mill was the first of three built in Easley between 1899 and 1910. The main building was completed in 1900, and is a four-story brick structure designed by preeminent mill architects Lockwood, Greene & Co.. It was built during a boom in the textile industry across the Southern United States; more than 70 mills were opened in South Carolina alone between 1895 and 1903. The mill met with immediate success, including large shipments for export to China. By 1907, the mill contained over 37,000 spindles and 1,000 looms, and employed 500. It was sold to Woodside Mills of Greenville in 1920, and to Dan River, Inc. in 1956, who operated the mill until 1990. The mill has a shallow-pitched hip roof with bracketed eaves. Most of the arched window openings have been bricked over. Other structures on the site include a one-story office building, a warehouse, smokestack, an ice house, water tower, and monument to the mill's founder, John Mattison Geer. [2] The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. [1] A proposal was made to convert the building to apartments in 2019. [3]

Easley, South Carolina City in South Carolina, United States

Easley is a city in Pickens County in the State of South Carolina. It is a principal city of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area. Most of the city lies in Pickens County, with only a very small portion of the city in Anderson County.

Lockwood, Greene & Co. American architectural firm

Lockwood, Greene & Co. was an American architectural firm.

Southern United States Cultural region of the United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America. It is located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern United States and Northeastern United States to its north and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to its south.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
  2. Meek, Martin (August 28, 2013). "Easley Mill" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2014.
  3. https://patch.com/south-carolina/easley/easley-cotton-mill-site-to-become-apartment-complex