It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as part of the Corky Row Historic District The red brick mills are unique in the city, built in the Second Empire style.

The Davol Mills Company was organized in 1866, with nineteen persons, with initial capital set at $270,000, and named in honor of William C. Davol, a machinery builder who is credited with importing the Roberts Self-acting Mule from Great Britain to Fall River in the early 1840s.

1 was built in 1867 at the corner of Rodman Street and Eight Rod Way (now known as Plymouth Avenue).

The Davol Mills initially produced cotton shirtings, sheetings, silesias and fancy fabrics.

The site was recorded as part of the 1968 New England Textile Mills II, and photographed by Jack E. Boucher of the Historic American Buildings Survey.