Border City Mills
Border City Mills is a textile factory complex in Fall River built between 1873 and 1888. The site consists of brick buildings with large arched windows and heavy cast-iron columns inside, built to support spinning and weaving machinery.
The mill was founded in 1873 as a cotton factory and peaked in the 1920s. As the textile industry declined after World War One and faced competition from southern mills, this site lost its economic importance by the 1940s.
The name comes from the Border City Manufacturing Company that built the mills. The brick buildings with their tall windows still shape the neighborhood today and recall the time when thousands of workers, many of them immigrants from Portugal, Ireland, and France, worked here every day.
The site sits at the corner of Weaver and West Street. You can walk around the remaining brick buildings and view the industrial architecture from outside.
A major fire destroyed the original wooden mill in 1877, prompting a rebuild with fire-resistant bricks. Another fire heavily damaged one of the remaining mills in 2016, but the complex's distinctive brick smokestack still stands today.
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