Greenville woolen mill
— — the building the town grew around.
Not only on a wall.
“A nineteenth-century brick mill on the Souhegan River in the village of Greenville, set against a dam and a stone-walled millpond. The Columbian Manufacturing Company ran cotton and later wool here for more than a hundred years. The mill's clock tower still rises above Main Street; the falls beside it carry the river under the road. The village was built to serve the mill and still reads that way. — from the studio
Greenville woolen mill, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Greenville is a small town in Hillsborough County, southern New Hampshire, set on the Souhegan River and incorporated in 1872 after separating from Mason. The village grew around the textile mill of the Columbian Manufacturing Company, established in 1826, which used the river's drop through the village to power its looms. The mill complex sits at the center of the village beside a dam and millpond. Greenville's population is roughly 2,100, and the historic mill village is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The main mill is brick, three to four stories tall, with a tall central clock tower facing the river. Surrounding buildings include a stone-walled millpond, weaving sheds, and a row of brick worker housing along the village's central street. The Columbian Manufacturing Company began with cotton goods, shifted into woolen production in later decades, and operated the complex into the mid-twentieth century. Much of the original brickwork and the dam remain in place, and the river still falls through the village beside the mill on its way east toward the Merrimack.
Greenville sits on New Hampshire Route 31, about ten miles south of Peterborough and twenty miles north of the Massachusetts state line. The mill complex is visible from Main Street and from the bridge over the Souhegan, and the surrounding village is walkable in an afternoon. Portions of the complex have been adapted into private offices and residences; the exterior, the dam, and the millpond are publicly viewable from the street. Nearby Mason village and the Wapack Trail along the ridges to the west draw most regional foot traffic.