Manufacturing Plant Facade	Manufacturing Plant Left Oblique	Cotton Oil Mill Right Oblique	Cotton Oil Mill Tower	Cotton Oil Mill Mill Office

The Highland Park Manufacturing Plant and Cotton Oil Complex represents an important element in the development of the textile industry in Rock Hill and in the rapid growth of the city during the period from 1881 to 1920. It also helped to set the pattern of investment by local leaders and citizens in the creation of the industry and of the mill village system. The complex is also significant as an unusually intact group of industrial buildings related to several products of what once was an abundant cotton crop, and as an example of industrial architecture. The rectangular mill building with central towers was a typical design for textile mill building in the Piedmont. The complex includes the Highland Park Manufacturing Plant (1888-89), which was the second major textile mill in Rock Hill, the Highland Park Cotton Oil Mill (1902), and the Highland Park Cotton Oil Mill Office (1902). In 1907, the manufacturing plant was expanded. They are the surviving buildings of a larger complex, including a gin and seed house, the rest of which have been demolished. Surrounding the original mill are portions of the mill village. The mill operated until 1968. Listed in the National Register June 10, 1992.

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