Highland Cotton Mills Village Historic District High Point, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Highland Cotton Mills Village Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000263
- Date Listed
- May 23, 2014
- Name
- Highland Cotton Mills Village Historic District
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- Roughly bounded by W. Market Center Dr., Connor, Jordan & Young Pls., S. Elm St.
- City/Town
- High point
- County
- Guilford
- State
- North Carolina
- Category
- district
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- INDUSTRY; COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT; ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, High Point began to develop as a major industrial center in Piedmont North Carolina. At first, furniture manufacturing was most prevalent, but as the first two decades of the twentieth century progressed, textile manufacturing, especially hosiery, came to the forefront of the city's industrial expansion. Premier local industrialists and entrepreneurs John Hampton Adams and James Henry Millis established the High Point Hosiery Mill in 1904 and several other hosiery mills after that. When they realized the competitive advantage they would have by producing their own knitting yarn, they built Highland Cotton Mills in 1913. Thus began eighty-two years of the mill's prominent role in High Point's textile industry - until 1986 as Highland Cotton Mills and, after that, under different ownership until the mill closed in 1995.
