The Front Street sites (44PY178 and 44PY181) are just north of the Main Street Bridge crossing of the Dan River. The millworkers' houses on these lots were built during the 1890s. Riverside Cotton Mills had erected the first of its complex of mill buildings by 1883. Beginning in 1903, the company expanded its operations outside city and created a formal company-owned village called Schoolfield for some of its workers.

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