Oakdale Cotton Mill Village

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Oakdale Cotton Mill Village
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Entrance to Oakdale Mill Village, September 2014
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LocationSR 1352 and SR 1144, Jamestown, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°58′50″N79°55′48″W / 35.98056°N 79.93000°W / 35.98056; -79.93000 Coordinates: 35°58′50″N79°55′48″W / 35.98056°N 79.93000°W / 35.98056; -79.93000
Area50 acres (20 ha)
Built1889 (1889)
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference # 76001327 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 15, 1976

Oakdale Cotton Mill Village is a historic textile mill, mill village, and national historic district located at Jamestown, Guilford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 37 contributing buildings including the Logan Manufacturing Company complex built during the 1880s and 33 frame mill worker houses dated to the early-20th century. The factory complex consists of a three-story rectangular brick office, a one and two-story L-shaped brick factory with a four-story tower and five one-story brick warehouses, a small one-story board-and-batten blacksmith shop, and a polygonal brick smokestack. [2]

Textile manufacturing is a major industry. It is based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into clothes. Different types of fibres are used to produce yarn. Cotton remains the most important natural fibre, so is treated in depth. There are many variable processes available at the spinning and fabric-forming stages coupled with the complexities of the finishing and colouration processes to the production of a wide ranges of products.

A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles.

Jamestown, North Carolina Town in North Carolina, United States

Jamestown is a town in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States, and is a suburb of the nearby cities of Greensboro and High Point. The population was 3,382 at the 2010 census.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]

National Register of Historic Places Federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. Brent Glass and Ruth Little-Stokes (August 1975). "Oakdale Cotton Mill Village" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.