When he built the large brick mill standing here in 1872, he renamed this village North Grosvenordale. Grosvenor also purchased a second mill further south, where he built a large new mill in 1868, calling that village Grosvenordale. The mill located here remained relatively small until after the American Civil War, when it and the associated water privileges were purchased by William Grosvenor, an investor from Providence, Rhode Island. North Grosvenordale was the site of early small textile mills, probably erected in the early years of the 19th century. The main road passing through the village is Connecticut Route 12, which roughly parallels the river's north–south course. It is located in central Thompson, on the banks of the French River. The historic area around the cotton mill was listed in 1993 and is located on Riverside Drive ( Route 12), Buckley Hill Road, Floral Avenue, Market Lane, and Marshall, Central, River, and Holmes Streets.Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.8 km 2 (2.2 mi 2), all land. The core of the village is listed as the North Grosvenordale Mill Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. The population was 1,530 at the 2010 census. North Grosvenordale ( / ˈ ɡ r oʊ v n ər d eɪ l/ GROHV-nər-dayl) is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Thompson in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. (Roth) Exterior Material(s)Įasement for deconstruction access between owner and Riverside Acquisition LLC out of North Carolina filed March 2017.Location in Windham County and the state of Connecticut. The high 1-story, brick weave shed originally had a sawtooth roof, which is now flat. Outbuildings include the smith shop and waste house in the millyard and two windowless storehouses along the (former) Norwich and Worcester Railroad southeast of the mill. A 2-story, 90' x 51' ell at the west end of the wing served as the picker house. A steam engine in the attached boiler house generated another 300 horsepower. The wheelpit beneath the wings held three turbines the initial installation yielded 400 horsepower, but the masonry dam was raised c.1900 and new turbines installed that provided some 700 horsepower. A 4-story, 135' x 70' brick wing extends west from the center of the mill. The 5-story west towers are smaller and less ornate than those to the east, which are 6-story with corner pilasters, corbeling between the fourth, fifth and sixth levels, and domed roofs. There are two stair towers on each long side, at the quarter points. Architectural Informationįour stories tall and 464' x 75', it resembles a brick-pier mill because the segmentally arched windows are recessed in the walls, but there are no pilasters. Employment increased to 1,122 in 1890 and 1,750 in 1900, two years after completion of the new weave shed. The mill contained 60,000 spindles and by 1882 employed 850 workers. The 5-story west towers are smaller 245 and less ornate than those to the east, which are 6-story with corner pilasters, corbeling between the fourth, fifth and sixth levels, and domed roofs. Four stories tall and 464' x 75', it resembles a brick-pier mill because the segmentally arched windows are recessed in the walls, but there are no pilasters. 2 was owned by a firm based in Providence and it specialized in finer cottons such as cambrics and high-count sheetings. It is comparable in scale to Connecticut's largest textile mills: Ponemah, Wauregan and Baltic. The company chose the north village for the site of its most ambitious project, building in 1872 the huge Mill No.2 or North Grosvenordale Mill. was incorporated, Fisherville became North Grosvenordale. In 1868, when Masonville was renamed Grosvenordale and the Grosvenor-Dale Co. In 1864, two years after completing the 5-story mill in lower Masonville, William Grosvenor purchased the plant and water privilege of the Fisherville Co., about one mile up the French River from Masonville.
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