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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. The mills occupy a bend in the Cochecho River that has been site of cottontextile manufacturing since at least 1823, when the Dover Manufacturing Company supplanted earlier sawmills and gristmills.
The present mill buildings were built between the 1880s and the early 20th century,[2] and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.[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 150 feet in height.
It has a modern concrete spillwa