{"nrhp_refnum":"07000821","name":"Alamance Mill Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3927-3981 NC 62 S, Great Alamance Creek W of NC 62S","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alamance","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.042118034000055,"lon":-79.48721437399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-08-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":[],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of mill houses along North Carolina Highway 62 South in the village of Alamance, Alamance County, North Carolina, beside Great Alamance Creek. The district's houses date from about 1840 to 1929 and were built for workers of the Alamance Cotton Mill.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its association with the development of the textile industry in Alamance County and the shift of rural workers into mill villages in the nineteenth century. Its houses are cited as a representative group of three mill-house types from three building periods, and the stone mill dam is described as an impressive, well-preserved example of nineteenth-century engineering.","narrative":"Alamance Cotton Mill was founded on Great Alamance Creek in 1837 by Edwin M. Holt and William A. Carrigan, and its workers' village rose along a single road uphill from the mill site. The district today contains fifteen houses, fifteen primary resources in all with the stone dam, and they fall into three groups: two-story frame houses built about 1860 to 1880, one-story houses with three gable roofs from about 1900, and bungalows from about 1927. An earlier house, possibly the supervisor's, dates from about 1840. The mill operated until 1926, and after the hosiery firm of John Shoffner took over the village, the old mill buildings served as dye works and storage until the hosiery mill closed in 1947. Its architectural value lies in the houses' consistent plan and their illustration of how mill housing changed over a century. The district is significant at the local level.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1840-1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The mill buildings are gone; the stone dam survives. Seven of the fifteen district houses have replacement siding.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.394767-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/7189/47718900/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07000821.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718900","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamance_Mill_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17510447"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/alamance-mill-village-historic-district-07000821/"}