Mills No. 1 and No 2 were located on State Street in the CoLa Neighborhood, along the banks of the Chenango Canal.
Part of this historic building 600 State Street was offered For Sale: 600 State Street (PDF). Now (2021/2022) the property is under redevelopment by the Lahinch Group, Utica Steam Cotton Mill. Learn more by looking at 502 State Street.
Historic Postcard & Post, offers...
"Postcard from 1910 commemorates the consolidation of the Utica Steam Cotton Mills (1848), one of the first manufacturing plants in the Valley to use steam instead of water power, and The Mohawk Valley Cotton Mills (1880). The old Mill on State St. between Court and Columbia actually represents the consolidation of several mills, the oldest of which was opened in 1848. By 1866 the firm employed 1,800 workers and was one of the world's largest manufacturers of sheets and pillowcases, with 138,000 spindles and 3,500 looms. The peak of the 19th-century industrial expansion was reached about 1910. After that, there began a long decline that was postponed by World War I orders, masked by the national prosperity in the 1920s, by the depression of the 1930s and postponed again by World War II demands. In the late 1940s, global textile giant J. P. Stevens & Sons acquired the Utica-Mohawk brand name. By the mid-1950s, most of the textile mills in Oneida County were gone. The former mill building is now home to many businesses, including anchor tenant Brodock Press, a full-service graphic communications company."
Utica recalling memories of CoLa's "State Street Mill". Join the conversation and hear statements like "My Dad managed State Street Mill"....
So many memories of downtown @CityofUtica, our historic past, proud businesses, buildings, and people! Learn more about the “State Street Mill” building still located Utica’s CoLa Neighborhood... https://t.co/CNuSs3ZIH2 pic.twitter.com/Xt1TsSNbKL
— BetterUticaDowntown (@BudsforBUD) February 2, 2019
We're not opposed to a new hospital, just do not bulldoze Downtown Utica's Historic Columbia-Lafayette Neighborhood... "Build It At St. Luke's!"