Historic Mills of Connecticut

Number of Existing Buildings

Not identified.

Dates of Construction

1974

Housing Types

n/a

Brief Description

Lime Rock is a former industrial village located in the southeastern section of the Town of Salisbury, Connecticut. The village lies along the Salmon Fell Kill or Salmon Creek and is divided into two sections joined by the creek. The northwestern portion of the village is centered around the remains of a nineteenth-century blast furnace and is dominated by the wooded slopes of Forge Mountain, which rise over 400 feet above the village. The southeastern section of the village is downstream of the remains of a large mill pond and contains a variety of former commercial, industrial, and residential structures. In general, Lime Rock is not densely settled, although clusters of homes and other structures occur at intervals along the major roads and in the vicinity of the major industrial areas. A number of cast iron stanchions remain scattered throughout the area, probably of local manufacture. [NR]. The village known as Lime Rock developed around iron extraction and processing operations that took place in this section of Salisbury as early as the mid 18th c., yet it developed into a notable industrial center under the management of the Barnum and Richardson families during the mid 19th c. Lime Rock evolved into a company town as the Barnum-Richardson Co. expanded its smelting and foundry operations in the area and much of the housing stock included in the district was built and/or owned by the company in order to house its workers.