{"nrhp_refnum":"83001906","name":"Hannah Pickett Mill No. 1","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"300 King Edward St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rockingham","county":"Richmond County","state":"NC","lat":34.91737179300003,"lon":-79.76089150499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A early twentieth-century textile mill complex at 300 King Edward Street, about two miles southeast of the Rockingham commercial district in Richmond County, North Carolina. Its main building was constructed between 1906 and 1908 and was later joined by weave rooms, cotton warehouses and an office in the early 1920s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mill is an unusually handsome and well preserved example of early twentieth-century textile mill construction, and the least altered of the eleven original mill complexes in the area. Its central stair tower is described as especially fine. It is also tied to W. B. Cole, a leading textile industrialist in Rockingham, and to the textile industry that dominated the local economy.","narrative":"Two miles southeast of Rockingham's commercial district at 300 King Edward Street, this textile mill complex was built between 1906 and 1908 as a hosiery-yarn mill for a company organized in 1906 by Robert L. Steele, Jr. and W. B. Cole. Its main building has a four-story stair tower modeled on an Italianate or Romanesque Revival campanile, with lancet windows, a corbelled cornice and a pyramidal roof. Weave rooms, cotton warehouses and an office followed in the early 1920s. Cole, a fourth-generation county textile industrialist, ran the mill for decades and shaped its growth. It is regarded as the least altered of the eleven original Richmond County mill complexes, and its stair tower is considered especially fine. The mill operated until 1957 and later housed warehouse space and a vocational training branch. Its importance rests on its architecture, its tie to Cole, and its place in the county's textile economy.","period_of_significance":"1900-1907","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate or Romanesque Revival (stated for the stair tower)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Has not housed textile machinery since 1957; used for warehouse purposes and as a vocational training branch for Richmond Technical College.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.61603-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/7183/47718347/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/83001906.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718347","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Pickett_Mill_No._1","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19867628"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/richmond-county/hannah-pickett-mill-no-1-83001906/"}