{"nrhp_refnum":"08000775","name":"Double Shoals Cotton Mill","other_names":["Double Shoals Manufacturing Company","Lucky Stride Yarn Mill"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"199 Old Mill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Double Shoals","county":"Cleveland County","state":"NC","lat":35.38149295300005,"lon":-81.54631605120761,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-03-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Double Shoals Cotton Mill is a two-and-a-half-story brick textile mill building in the unincorporated mill village of Double Shoals, Cleveland County, North Carolina, on the west bank of the First Broad River. It was built about 1880 and is a contributing building in the nominated property along with its surviving water-power features.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mill is locally significant under Criterion C as a representative late nineteenth-century example of heavy timber slow-burning textile mill construction. It is described as the oldest of the remaining textile mills in the county, with its riverside siting, original interior framing, and surviving mill race, stone wall, and timber dam reflecting the building practices of the time.","narrative":"Built about 1880 on a hillside above the First Broad River in Double Shoals, Cleveland County, this two-and-a-half-story brick mill was constructed with heavy timber post-and-beam framing, thick plank floors laid without joists, and separate stair towers, a design known as slow-burning mill construction. Its exterior has Italianate details including segmentally arched window openings with hood moldings, a lancet-arched doorway in the stair tower, and decorative rafter tails. The mill was founded by Double Shoals Mill Company after E. A. Morgan replaced an earlier wood mill building, which had been powered by an overshot waterwheel and operated during the Civil War. It was the county's oldest surviving textile mill of its type, and its original interior machinery and water-power works are still in place. The building ceased operating as a mill in the mid-1980s and has been vacant for several years.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1880","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Vacant for several years after use as storage, according to the document.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.291367-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/7196/47719646/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08000775.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000775/6e27c8af21-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000775/6e27c8af21-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Double_Shoals_Cotton_Mill.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Double_Shoals_Cotton_Mill.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719646","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Shoals_Cotton_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149939"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cleveland-county/double-shoals-cotton-mill-08000775/"}