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Photograph of Ormsby-Laughlin Textile Companies Mill
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ormsby-Laughlin Textile Companies Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Ormsby-Laughlin Textile Companies Mill is a historic textile mill located at Waterford in Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1894 and is a Romanesque Revival style, brick industrial building with a gable roof.”

Wikipedia article Ormsby-Laughlin Textile Companies Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Ormsby--Laughlin Textile Companies Mill - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 31 Mohawk Ave., Waterford, 12188
  • When was it listed? March 1986
  • Category. building
  • Town. Waterford town
  • National Register reference number. 86000470 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

1,084 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,084 fires within 5 miles of Ormsby-Laughlin Textile Companies Mill between 2000 and 2020, burning about 691 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 196 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined629
Arson/incendiarism196
Debris and open burning87
Natural64
Smoking60
Equipment and vehicle use23
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Ormsby-Laughlin Textile Companies Mill: 12 producers, 9 past producers, 1 plant. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bloating Material. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
CohoesBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Troy PlantPerlitePlant
Cohoes MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cohoes Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Troy Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Troy Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cohoes Clay PitClayProducer
Cohoes Clay PitClayPast Producer
Cohoes Clay PitClayPast Producer
Crescent Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Storms near this property

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterford, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007LightningWaterford1 killedLightning struck a steel pylon at Alcathys Marina, adjacent to where a 17 year old male was standing. The male was knocked unconscious, and was transported to a nearby hospital. He was pronounced dead the next morning.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWaterford$5,000no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindWaterford$5,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWaterford-Three trees were downed onto wires on Middle Second and Fulton Streets as well as Maple Ave.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWaterford-Multiple trees were uprooted in Waterford due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2011FloodWaterford-Flooding occurred along the Hudson River in Saratoga County. Numerous roadways, houses and riverside camps were flooded. Some properties had several feet of water in them.||In Schuylerville, a family had to be evacuated from their Schuyler Island home. Flood waters from the Hudson River undermined the back of the house, tore out an in-ground pool and inundated the house with up to 5 1/2 feet of water. Route 29, Ferry Road which crosses Schuyler Island, was closed between Route 4/32 and County Route 113, River Road. Fort Hardy Park went underwater.||In Stillwater, Route 4 from Wilber Road to River Road along the Hudson River was alternating one-way traffic due to flooding. Flooding also occurred on Ferry lane, River Road and Bunce Lane along the Hudson River.
May 2011FloodWaterford-Flooding which began on April 28th continued along the Hudson River in Saratoga County.
March 2011FloodWaterford-Crescent Boat Club located on River Road in Waterford was reported flooded due to an ice jam on the Mohawk River.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWaterford-A tree was reported down in Waterford due to strong thunderstorm winds.
October 2010FloodWaterford-The Cohoes-Waterford Bridge, Route 32/Saratoga Avenue was reported closed due to nearly a foot of water on the bridge.
July 2008HailWaterford-Nickel size hail fell in Waterford during a thunderstorm.
August 2007HailWaterford-Penny size hail was reported in Waterford.
February 2006Thunderstorm WindWaterford-A wind gust of 62 miles an hour was measured in a thunderstorm at Waterford by a trained spotter.

Every storm recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

15 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Waterford Village Historic District0.3 miles1977
Peebles (Peobles) Island0.5 miles1973
Northside Historic District0.5 miles1975
URGER (canal tugboat)0.6 miles2001
CATAWISSA (tugboat)0.8 miles1996
Church Hill Historic District3.4 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000470 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga CountyAll 83 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.