City of
Hickory Brownfields
Former Elliot Knitting Mill and Piedmont Foundry & Machine Company
Map this Property Address: Main Avenue Way SE and 3rd Street SE, Hickory, NCProperty Description: Click here for Catawba County GIS parcel information.
The property was developed prior to 1885 with a portion of the Hickory Roller Mills facility and included a planing mill and a sawmill building. Hickory Roller Mills used the property until the late 1890s. In the early 1900s an ice factory, flouring mill, and the Piedmont Foundry and Machine Company occupied the western portion of the property. The Piedmont Foundry and Machine Company was comprised of a machine shop, a pattern shop, a coke and shavings storage building, and an iron scrap yard. Piedmont Foundry and Machine Company occupied the site until the late 1960s.
Elliott Knitting Mills first occupied the site in the early 1910s and used the eastern portion of the property for dyeing, boarding, knitting, and finishing. Catawba Creamery Company used a small portion of the Elliott Knitting Mills warehouse until the late 1910s. Elliott Knitting Mills occupied the site until the late 1990s and used the facility for the same operations mentioned previously, but with the addition of a chemical laboratory, a boiler room, and a service tank supplied by a hand dug water supply well.
Environmental Assessments
The following environmental assessments have been completed at this property:
Phase I Environmental Site Assessment
