Pacolet Mills Historic District, Historic textile mill district in Pacolet, United States.
Pacolet Mills Historic District is a national historic district in Pacolet, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It encompasses 126 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the mill village of Pacolet. The district includes the Pacolet Mills Cloth Room and Warehouse, the Pacolet Mill Office, and two churches.
The textile mill started operations in 1883 and shaped Pacolet's growth for decades. Most buildings rose between 1915 and 1920, when the factory expanded and built a planned worker settlement.
The district preserves the mill village of Pacolet, where worker and supervisor houses stood within sight of the mills. The Pacolet Mills Cloth Room and Warehouse, the Pacolet Mill Office and two churches also survive, marking work, administration and worship as the shared reference points of village life.
The district invites you to walk around, as the streets and sidewalks follow the original 1919 village plan and are easy to explore on foot. You get the best sense of the different house types and building layout by strolling through the neighborhood.
The district's four mills, built in 1883, 1888, 1891 and 1894, were demolished in the late 1980s, so the surviving 126 contributing buildings are the village itself: worker and supervisor houses, the Pacolet Mills Cloth Room and Warehouse, the Pacolet Mill Office and two churches. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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