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Quequechan Valley Mills Historic District

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Built
  
1882

MPS
  
Fall River MRA

Opened
  
1882

Architect
  
Chauncey H. Sears

NRHP Reference #
  
83000709

Added to NRHP
  
16 February 1983

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Location
  
Fall River, Massachusetts

Similar
  
Fall River Heritage State Park, Watuppa Ponds, Battleship Cove, USS Massachusetts (BB‑59), USS Joseph P Kennedy

Quequechan Valley Mills Historic District is a historic district located on Quequechan, Jefferson, and Stevens Streets between Interstate-195 and Denver Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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History

The Quequechan Valley Mills Historic District represents the last major area of textile mills developed in Fall River from the late 1890s into the early 1900s. The mills here are typically much wider than those built in other parts of the city during the 1870s.

In 2009 and 2010, three of the mills in the district were demolished to make way for commercial development, including Hargraves Mill No. 2 (formerly Quaker Fabric), Parker Mills and Barnaby Mills (formerly Frito-Lay and Quality Outlets).

Mills

The contributing properties include:

  • Arkwright Mill No. 1 (1897); with detached mill office
  • Barnaby Mills (1893); (demolished 2010)
  • Davis Mills No. 1 & 2 (1902 & 1908); with detached mill office
  • Hargraves Mill No. 2 (demolished 2009)
  • Parker Mills (demolished 2009)
  • Stevens Mills; two mills remain (two mills demolished in 2000s, one destroyed by fire in 1990s)
  • References

    Quequechan Valley Mills Historic District Wikipedia