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Cocheco Mills
United States historic place
The Cocheco Mills comprise a historic mill complex in the heart of Dover, New Hampshire.
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The mills occupy a bend in the Cochecho River that has been site of cottontextile manufacturing since at least , when the Dover Manufacturing Company supplanted earlier sawmills and gristmills. The present mill buildings were built between the s and the early 20th century,[2] and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in [1]
Description
The surviving elements of the mill complex are six major manufacturing buildings, the dam and wheel house which diverted water to the mills, a steel bridge, and the smokestack and remains of the boiler house of the complex.
Dam, wheel house and bridge
The dam stretches across the Cochecho River in a broad arc roughly west of mills #2 and #3. It is made of rough-cut granite ashlar, and stands between 9 and feet in height. It has a modern concrete spillway. The dam was bu The Dover Mill Girls Walk Out in America’s 1st Women’s Strike SETYM