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Pacolet Mills Historic District, Spartanburg County (Pacolet)
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Montgomery Memorial
Methodist Church
161 Limestone St.
Pacolet Mills
Baptist Church
150 Stone St.
Pacolet Mills
Office
180 Montgomery Ave.
Pacolet Mills
Cloth Room and
Warehouse
1560 Sunny Acre Rd.
Pacolet River
Bridge
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Mill Worker's
House
Type 1A
115 Green St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 1B
265 Green St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 1D
165 Limestone St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 1E
155 Green St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 1F
495 Stone St.
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Mill Worker's
House
Type 1G
255 Stone St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 2
1220 Cleveland St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 2A
1205 Cleveland St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 2B
254 Milliken St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 2C
181 Brewster St.
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Mill Worker's
House
Type 3A
111 Goodlet St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 3B
210 Brewster St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 3C
197 Brewster St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 3D
230 Brewster St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 3E
141 Cameron St.
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Mill Worker's
House
Type 3F
151 Cameron St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 3G
231 Brewster St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 3H
190 Brewster St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 3I
191 Brewster St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 4
250 Montgomery Ave.
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Mill Worker's
House
Type 5A
275 Stone St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 5B
110 Milliken St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 6
110 Quarry Lane
Mill Worker's
House
Type 7
160 Stone St.
Mill Worker's
House
Type 8
150 Stone St.

The Pacolet Mills Historic District is significant under the thematic areas of industry and community planning and development, and for its architecture and landscape architecture. This district is an excellent example of an early to mid-twentieth century South Carolina textile mill village, one centered around a mill that opened in 1883 and closed in 1983, including significant designs by architects J. Frank Collins and Luther D. Proffitt and landscape architect and planner Earle S. Draper. The Pacolet Mills Historic District includes the mill office, a cloth room and warehouse, two churches and 237 supervisor and operative houses. There are 129 properties that contribute to the character of the district and 114 properties that do not contribute. The district features a variety of mill village house types. Most were built between 1915 and 1920, with a few built ca. 1950. There are five main house types. The majority of the houses have undergone alterations since their initial construction. In spite of these types of alterations, approximately 50% of the houses retain their basic form and characteristics. Earle S. Draper’s 1919 landscape plan for the Pacolet Mills village featured paved streets and sidewalks - unusual in most textile mill villages of the period - as well as stone or concrete terraces, walls, and steps, and parks and other green spaces. Such landscape features all contribute to the historic, architectural, and landscape character of this historic district. Although the three main Pacolet Mills - built in 1883, 1888, and 1891, respectively - and a fourth mill built in 1894 were demolished in the late 1980s, the Pacolet Mills village that was laid out and built in 1919 is largely intact. The road system in the four major sections of the Pacolet Mills village is also intact. Listed in the National Register November 16, 2007.

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