Dan River Inc. Riverside Division Historic District

Dan River Inc. Riverside Division Historic District and Dan River Mill No. 8 was a textile mill complex and later a national historic district located at Danville, Virginia.

Dan River Inc. Riverside Division Historic District
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
Dan River Mills, May 2010
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Location	Both sides of Dan River roughly bounded by Union St. Dam, Main St. Bridge, and Riverside and Memorial Drs., Danville, Virginia
Coordinates	36°35′31″N 79°23′32″W
Area	118.7 acres (48.0 ha)
Built	1882 (1882)
Built by	Aberthaw Construction Co.; Lockwood, Greene & Company
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	00000480 (original) 10000095[1] (increase)
VLR No.	108-0013, 108-0123
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 11, 2000
Boundary increase	March 24, 2010
Designated VLR	July 20, 1999, September 17, 2009[2]
Removed from NRHP	July 29, 2016

History

The site was built by the Riverside Cotton Mills, which were later called Dan River Inc. Most of the industrial buildings date from the 1880s through the 1910s. Rather than hiring local residents who were mostly black, the company exclusively recruited rural white workers. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. In 2006, Dalmia Group Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Limited purchased the company and closed the facility, moving production overseas. The historic district had a boundary increase in 2010 but it was delisted in 2016 after the site was partially cleared.^[1]

Architecture

The district included 23 contributing buildings and 13 contributing structures in the city of Danville. The district included buildings and structures associated with the Riverside Division, one of two historic textile mill complexes in Danville. The building and structures are characterized by multistory industrial buildings of mostly brick construction. Dan River Mill No. 8 is a four-story, reinforced concrete building constructed in the 1920s.^[3][4] The Riverside Division of the company, site of the former Riverside Cotton Mills was constructed by its long time president and founder T.B. Fitzgerald.

See also

• Schoolfield School Complex
• Schoolfield Welfare Building
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Danville, Virginia

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
3. J. Daniel Pezzoni (December 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Dan River Inc. Riverside Division Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine
4. Pulice, Michael J.; Kern, John R. (July 2008). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Dan River Mill No. 8". National Archives. National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved May 17, 2024.

External links

• The New Schoolfield District