{"nrhp_refnum":"75001262","name":"Laurel Mill and Col. Jordan Jones House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Gupton at jct. of SR 1432 and 1436","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gupton","county":"Franklin County","state":"NC","lat":36.177922970000026,"lon":-78.19138729207991,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture","Invention"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A grist mill and a frame raised cottage in the Greek Revival-Italianate style at the junction of Sandy and Richland creeks near Gupton, Franklin County, North Carolina. The house dates to about the 1850s; the mill belonged to Jordan F. Jones's industrial complex.","why_significant":"Laurel Mill is the only operating grist mill in Franklin County and the sole surviving part of Colonel Jordan F. Jones's industrial complex, which included saw, grist and cotton mills. The nearby cottage, probably built for Jones in the 1850s, is an example of the vernacular Greek Revival-Italianate style. Together they represent nineteenth-century industry in an overwhelmingly agricultural county.","narrative":"At the crossing of Sandy and Richland creeks near Gupton stand the last remains of Laurel, once a busy little town. Laurel Mill is a two-story frame grist mill set on stone piers over the water, with turbine machinery beneath and millstones inside. Across the road, on a hill above the creek, sits a one-story frame cottage on a raised brick basement, with fluted pilasters at the corners and heavy bracketed cornices in a vernacular Greek Revival-Italianate style. Both are linked to Colonel Jordan F. Jones, born in 1821, who bought the mill property in 1860 and built a complex of saw, grist and cotton mills, a store, a gin and later a creamery and wagon factory. Jones died in 1906, and the properties were sold at auction in 1909. The mill is the only operating grist mill in Franklin County, and the house is probably from the 1850s.","period_of_significance":"1850s, 1860s (19th century)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival-Italianate (house); nineteenth-century grist mill","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both buildings are described as in good condition and occupied; the mill is running again and grinds meal on a limited scale.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.35218-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/7203/47720338/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/75001262.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001262/baff395099-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001262/baff395099-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Barrett","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laurel_Mill.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Barrett</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:Laurel_Mill.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720338","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Mill_and_Col._Jordan_Jones_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19875017"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/franklin-county/laurel-mill-and-col-jordan-jones-house-75001262/"}