Spray Industrial Historic District

Historic district in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Spray Industrial Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Spray Cotton Mills Complex
36°30′39″N 79°45′22″W / 36.51083°N 79.75611°W / 36.51083; -79.75611
Area	151 acres (61 ha)
Architect	Biberstein, R.C.; Et al.
NRHP reference No.	86003371^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 9, 1986

Spray Industrial Historic District is a national historic district located at Eden, Rockingham County, North Carolina. It encompasses 70 contributing buildings, 9 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in an industrial section of the town of Eden. It includes buildings associated with eight textile mill complexes, mill village housing, and seven commercial buildings. Notable contributing resources include the Smith River Dam and Spray Power canal, Morehead Cotton Mill complex, "Superintendent's" House (c. 1810), Imperial Bank and Trust Company (1912), Leaksville Cotton Mills complex, Spray Mercantile Building, Spray Cotton Mills complex, Lily Mill complex, Nantucket Mills complex designed by R. C. Biberstein, American Warehouse Company complex, Rhode Island Mill complex, Phillips-Chatham House (c. 1910), and Spray Woolen Mill complex.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.^[1] The main Spray Cotton Mill building was destroyed by fire in January 2023.^[3]

Gallery

Manufacturing of blankets at the Carolina Cotton and Woolen Mills Company during World War I

Making blankets
Dyeing stocks
Mule spinning department
Napping the blankets

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Claudia R. Brown (August 1986). "Spray Industrial Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
^ Tran, Louie (January 26, 2023). "'It is our community. It is our history': Eden fire destroys former Spray Cotton Mill, a community staple". WXII12. Hearst Television. Retrieved February 15, 2023.