The John M. Stone Cotton Mill is a building in

Starkville, Mississippi Starkville is a city in, and the county seat of, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, United States. Mississippi State University is a land-grant institution and is located partially in Starkville but primarily in an adjacent unincorporated area desig ...

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 ...

. Built in 1902, it was a

cotton mill A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning (textiles), spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system. Althou ...

named for

John Marshall Stone John Marshall Stone (April 30, 1830March 26, 1900) was an American politician from Mississippi. A Democrat, he served longer as governor of that state than anyone else, from 1876 to 1882 and again from 1890 to 1896. He approved a new constitut ...

. It was renamed the E.E. Cooley Building after being purchased by

Mississippi State University Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville, Mississippi. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Unive ...

in 1965; afterward, the building was used for almost fifty years to house the university's physical plant.E.E. Cooley Building (John M. Stone Cotton Mill)
The building reopened in 2015 as an event center named ''The Mill at MSU''.

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The Mill at MSU
Buildings and structures in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi {{Mississippi-NRHP-stub