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Cooleemee Mill Town Historic District

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Built
  
c. 1898 (1898)

Area
  
197 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
14000704

Added to NRHP
  
24 September 2014

Cooleemee Mill Town Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Marginal, Hickory, Center & Holt Sts., Neely & Pine Ridge Rds., S. Yadkin R., Cooleemee, North Carolina

Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman

Cooleemee Mill Town Historic District is a national historic district located at Cooleemee, Davie County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 433 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 6 contributing structures on the original Cooleemee Cotton Mill Company property at Cooleemee. It was developed between 1898 and 1967, and includes notable examples of Gothic Revival, American Craftsman, and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the mill houses of 12 house types, Cooleemee Cotton Mill complex, Pest House and the company farm, Friendship Baptist Church (c. 1905), North Cooleemee Elementary School (1952), Church of the Good Shepherd (1925), Cooleemee United Methodist Church (1932), First Baptist Church of Cooleemee (1949), Cooleemee Recreation Center Bathhouse (1949), “The Holler,” and “Riverside Park,” also known as “Park Hill.”

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

References

Cooleemee Mill Town Historic District Wikipedia