Dan River Inc. Riverside Division Historic District and Dan River Mill No. 8 was a textile mill complex and later a national
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
located at
Danville, Virginia
Danville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States, located in the Southside Virginia region and on the fall line of the Dan River. It was a center of tobacco production and was an area of Confederate activity ...
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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
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2000. In 2006,
Dalmia Group
Dalmia Bharat Group, (DBG) is an Indian conglomerate company, which trace their origin to the businesses established by ''Ramkrishna Dalmia'' and Jaidayal Dalmia. The Dalmia brothers established a business conglomerate in eastern India, in the ...
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.
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Architecture
The district included 23 contributing buildings
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
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
Textile Manufacturing or Textile Engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful goods ...
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.[ an]
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See also
* Schoolfield School Complex
The Schoolfield School Complex, now the Westmoreland Schoolfield senior apartments, is a three-building complex of historic school buildings located in Danville, Virginia.
History
The Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mill Company built the compl ...
* Schoolfield Welfare Building
The Schoolfield Welfare Building, now known as Schoolfield Presents, is a historic function hall at 917 West Main Street in Danville, Virginia
Danville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States, located in th ...
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Danville, Virginia
References
External Links
The New Schoolfield District
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Danville, Virginia
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Buildings and structures in Danville, Virginia
Cotton mills in the United States
Former National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
2016 disestablishments in Virginia
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