Orange Factory Village, House No. 12, Old Factory Road (State Route 1628), Durham, Durham County, NC

Significance: The Orange Factory houses, dating from the 1860s were built to accommodate employees of one of the earliest cotton mills in North Carolina. They assume historical significance as components of the mill complex and as the former nucleus of a company village.

Survey number: HABS NC-9-F

Building/structure dates: after. 1850- before. 1870 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: ca. 1916 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1984 Demolished

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1916

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