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| 1869 Great Falls Mfg. Company ca. 1912 |
| The impressive ruins of Great Falls Mill make for one of the county's most evocative historic places. The mill stands on the site of the antebellum Richmond Manufacturing Company mill and the Great Falls Mfg. Co. (pictured at top), which was burned by Union forces in 1865. Construction began in the late 1860s and Great Falls Mill was placed in operations in 1870.....The mill closed in 1930 and in later years was used as a cotton warehouse by Claude Gore's son John. Tragically, the building burned down in 1972 and only a shell of a building is left. To read more about this historic site in Richmond County, please refer to the book, The Architectural History of Richmond County, North Carolina. |
| After the original 1837 mill was burned during the Civil War, it was soon rebuilt as the Great Falls Mill and was back in production by 1870. The mill pictured here was destroyed by fire in the mid 1970's. |
| 1869 Great Falls Mfg. Company. (Photo courtesy of Office of Archives and History) |
| Great Falls Mill US 74 Highway, Rockingham 1869-71 |