Historic Mills of Connecticut

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For historical significance see National Register application: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/83003592.pdf Saxony Co. built this frame and clapboard mill in 1836 to manufacture satinets. The only surviving, completely wooden mill in town, it provides the unique opportunity to view the kind of mill structure that housed the emerging woolen industry in antebellum Rockville. It was originally a simple rectangle, 2 l/2-story and 120' x 34' with gable roof. Hockanum Co. (separate entry) bought Saxony in 1874 and added the 5-story stair and bell tower. The beveled corners, arched openings and dentiled cornice of the tower contrast with the unadorned utilitarian design of the original structure. Brick boiler and dye houses were added in the 20th century. A plastics firm now uses the mill. (Roth)

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For description see National Register application: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/83003592.pdf and https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Photos/83003592.pdf

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Exterior Visible from Public Road?

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Bibliography

1. Roth, Matthew, et al, Connecticut: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites (Washington DC: SIA, 1981).