25 Middle Street (House), 25 Middle Street, Valley, Chambers County, AL

Significance: This wooden frame textile mill workers' home was probably built ca. 1883 during an expansion phase at Riverdale Mill. It appears to have been a duplex providing two one-room spaces for unmarried mill workers. Successive additions enlarged this house to accommodate families, and it was later converted to a single-family home with an indoor bathroom. Riverdale Mill opened in 1866 along the Chattahoochee River as a water-powered facility under the name of the Alabama-Georgia Manufacturing Co. In 1998 Riverview village comprised over 130 structures.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1479

Survey number: HAER AL-176

Building/structure dates: ca. 1883 Initial Construction

houses labor housing middle middle street house chambers chambers county alabama duplexes porches housing domestic life alabama historical commission alabama georgia manufacturing company richard k anderson historic american engineering record historic chattahoochee commission julie turner valley historic preservation commission photo georgia manufacturing plants manufacturing library of congress

1969 - 1980

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html