Cheshire Number One Mill, Main & Grove Streets, Harrisville, Cheshire County, NH

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum

Significance: The mill was built in 1847 and was operated continuously as a woolen textile mill from 1850 to 1971. It is the only granite building in the village. It is typical of the stone mills that were common in southeast Massachusetts and Rhode Island at the time of its construction.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-54

Survey number: HABS NH-173

Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: ca. 1860 Subsequent Work

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1933 - 1970

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