{"nrhp_refnum":"80002889","name":"Taylor's Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1120 W of SR 1124","address_restricted":false,"city":"Middlesex","county":"Nash County","state":"NC","lat":35.78223425200005,"lon":-78.32891649985905,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-05-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Taylor's Mill is a two-story frame grist mill with a related millpond on Moccasin Creek, located at the base of two gradually sloping hills where Nash County meets Johnston County, North Carolina. It is the surviving remnant of a late nineteenth-century rural industrial complex.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the mill represents the small water-powered industrial sites that served the agrarian economy of North Carolina. Its heavy timber frame construction and turbine-powered design are described as rare survivors of mid-nineteenth-century mills in the coastal plain. The site also has a documented milling history dating to the 1760s and the millpond and a buried wooden dam are said to be likely sources of archeological and engineering information.","narrative":"On Moccasin Creek at the Nash-Johnston county line, Taylor's Mill is a two-story frame grist mill built over the water on stone piers and a stone foundation. The present structure is thought to date from the 1850s, when Captain Alsey J. Taylor owned the site, though milling there goes back to James Lee's mills of the 1760s. The mill was a turbine-driven grist mill, and its heavy mortise-and-tenon timber framing and heart pine weatherboarding survive. It is regarded as one of very few nineteenth-century frame mills remaining in the coastal plain of the state. The site once held a wagon-wheel factory, sawmill, blacksmith and paint shops, and a general store, and it was a community gathering place. The mill closed around 1955 when state safety rules required costly upgrades. A wooden dam beneath the later stone dam is also considered significant.","period_of_significance":"c. 1850-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Now used for storage and in advanced deterioration; the document says the building is unsafe and the owners seek help stabilizing it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.745522-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7214/47721474/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002889.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721474","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%27s_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23073326"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/nash-county/taylors-mill-80002889/"}