Dallas Mill

Dallas Mill was a manufacturer of cotton sheeting in Huntsville, Alabama, and the first of four major textile mills in the city. It was incorporated in 1891, began operation on November 16, 1892, and operated until 1949. When it opened it held 25,000 spindles and 704 looms, and it was doubled in size within eight years to 50,000 spindles and 1,541 looms. The main building was designed by the Providence, Rhode Island firm Lockwood, Greene and Company in the Italianate style, with five stories, two square brick towers with pyramidal roofs and floors carried on turned wood columns. After the mill closed it served from 1955 until 1987 as a shoe distribution warehouse, and a fire destroyed the building on July 24, 1991, leaving only the riveted steel water tower. The mill village built for its workers, at its peak about 350 houses, was listed with the mill on the National Register of Historic Places.