Warrensburg Mills Historic District
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Warrensburg Mills Historic District is a national historic district
located at Warrensburg
, Warren County, New York
. It includes 58 contributing buildings and four contributing structures. It encompasses a number of mill complexes and homes related to the development of Warrensburg. It includes a mill dam, Emerson Sawmill
(ca. 1820), grist mill, early shirt factory (1878), later shirt factory (1898), office building (1855), coal storage shed (ca. 1920), grain warehouses, and 51 wood residences and one brick residence. Also within the district are the Osborne Bridge (ca. 1930), and Woolen Mill Bridge (ca. 1895, constructed by Croton Bridge Builders).
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1975.
Historic district (United States)
In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...
located at Warrensburg
Warrensburg (CDP), New York
Warrensburg is a census-designated place in Warren County, New York, United States. The population was 3,208 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area....
, Warren County, New York
Warren County, New York
Warren County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Glens Falls, New York, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 65,707. It is named in honor of General Joseph Warren, an American Revolutionary War hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill...
. It includes 58 contributing buildings and four contributing structures. It encompasses a number of mill complexes and homes related to the development of Warrensburg. It includes a mill dam, Emerson Sawmill
Sawmill
A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards.-Sawmill process:A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago; a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end....
(ca. 1820), grist mill, early shirt factory (1878), later shirt factory (1898), office building (1855), coal storage shed (ca. 1920), grain warehouses, and 51 wood residences and one brick residence. Also within the district are the Osborne Bridge (ca. 1930), and Woolen Mill Bridge (ca. 1895, constructed by Croton Bridge Builders).
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1975.
External links
- Emerson Sawmill, Scroon River, River Street, Warrensburg, Warren, NY: 17 photos, 4 data page, and 1 photo caption page at Historic American Building Survey