Jct. of Willow and Oak Sts., Mount Airy, North Carolina. County/parish: Surry.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 12, 2000. NRIS 00001208.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Renfro Mill, also known as R. Roberts Leaf Tobacco House, is a historic industrial building located at Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina. The original section was built as a tobacco barn about 1893. The largest addition was built in 1946–1947. It is a one- to 4 1/2-story, brick, concrete, steel, wood, and granite industrial building encompassing 100,000 square feet of space. It was originally built to house a tobacco leaf house, and after 1921 the Renfro company, a sock manufacturer. The mill closed in 1997.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722336