Mill Community Record Redding
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- Georgetown Historic District
- Address or Location
- Roughly bounded by US 7, Portland Ave., CT 107, and the Norwalk River, Redding
- Specific Location
- Roughly bounded by US 7, Portland Ave., CT 107, and the Norwalk River
- County
- Fairfield
- Historic Designation
- Associated Mill Complexes
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
Twenty-two.
Dates of Construction
c.1880-1922
Housing Types
n/a
Brief Description
For description see National Register application: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/87000343.pdf.
The village known as Georgetown developed around, and largely in direct association with, the Gilbert and Bennett Wire Mfg. Co.’s (#3670) mill situated along the Norwalk River in the southwest corner of Redding. A significant collection of working-class housing was erected by various parties in the vicinity of the mill during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and 22 single- and multi-family residences built by the Gilbert and Bennett Wire Mfg. Co. can be found on Portland Street. The majority of the company-built houses consist of duplex-style wood-frame Colonial Revival residences built between ca. 1920 and ca. 1922, however, these are intermixed with several single-family gable-front vernacular houses erected ca. 1880. Four of the company-built houses are located over Redding’s border with the town of Wilton.
