It was once home to a ropemaking company that made rope and twine for seafaring vessels ... The section of the old mill that’s still standing is home to office space and a number of businesses ...

1880 Danville’s first post office built. 1882 Riverside Cotton Mills chartered for manufacturing cotton and woolen fabrics, rope. Morotock Manufacturing Company opens. 1883 Riverside Mill No. 1 is ...

In spinning mills, which could be multi-storey, there are large numbers of ropes coming off the flywheel. These 'rope races' convey power to the mill's different floors.

Meet the small army of stonemasons, blacksmiths, carpenters, wood-cutters, tilers, rope-makers and dyers resurrecting ... in the construction of the water mill is one high point.