page_title: Cocheco Mills
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Cocheco Mills / Description
context_page_description: The Cocheco Mills are a historic mill complex in the heart of Dover, New Hampshire. The mills occupy a site at a bend in the Cocheco River that has been the site of industrial activity since at least 1822, when the Dover Cotton Factory was built there. The present mill buildings were built between the 1880s and the early 20th century, and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
context_section_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.
caption: Dover, New Hampshire – Child laborers at Cocheco Manufacturing Company in 1909. Photo by Lewis Hine.
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