Rogerson's Village Historic District
Why it's listed
Rogerson's Village is a cotton mill community in North Uxbridge, Massachusetts, arranged along Hartford Avenue and the Mumford River. Its focal point is the pair of stone mills, the Crown (1823-25) and the Eagle (1827), joined by a brick unit of 1851 that spans the river. Nearby are a brick community center with a store, meeting space and tenements, rows of brick workers' cottages, wooden tenements, an owner's house called Gray Rock, and a brick machine shop and storage building. The district was listed because it preserves a nearly complete early 19th-century manufacturing village with few removals or additions since production ended. The Crown Mill is described as the oldest surviving stone mill with a clerestory-monitor roof in Massachusetts, and the village is called the only complex of its quality left in the state's Blackstone Valley. Buildings are grouped by function and placed to suit the terrain, with the mills set apart across a meadow. Fire severely damaged the mills in 1975.
Significance in brief: The nomination calls it a nearly complete, largely unaltered early 19th-century rural cotton manufacturing community. It is described as the only complex of this quality remaining in the Massachusetts portion of the Blackstone Valley. Its buildings represent types common to early mill villages, and the grouping of buildings with the natural terrain is part of its significance.
Machine-generated summary. This summary was generated by a language model from the official nomination document and has not been reviewed line by line by an editor. It may contain errors. Check the source document before relying on any detail. Source: nomination document (PDF) · National Archives catalog entry. NRHP reference 71000092, listed November 23, 1971. Summary generated October 2026 (model claude-sonnet-5-5, prompt v1.0-2026-10-29, confidence medium).
Key facts
| Address | N and S sides of Hartford Ave., North Uxbridge |
|---|---|
| County | Worcester County |
| Listed | November 23, 1971 |
| Reference number | 71000092 |
| Resource type | District |
| Period of significance | 19th Century; 1823 and following |
| Architect / builder | Robert Rogerson (builder of the mills and associated structures) |
| Areas of significance | Industry, Engineering, Architecture |
| Level of significance | National |
| Status (as stated in the nomination) | Described in 1971 as in good condition overall: brick tenements in fine condition, earliest mill-tenement covered with asbestos siding, and the community center empty. Later correspondence reports the Crown and Eagle Mills severely damaged by fire in October 1975. |
| Acreage | 27.5 |
| Coordinates | 42.09290, -71.63570 (NPS GIS) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.
Sources and further reading
- National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places database (snapshot May 2026), reference 71000092.
- Nomination form (PDF, National Archives) — catalog entry
- Wikipedia article (used for cross-checking only; text not reproduced here)
- Wikidata Q7359363
- This listing as JSON
Last updated October 2026. Found an error? See the editorial policy for how to report it.