Developed between 1871 and 1892, it was historically one of the city's largest mills, and its building inventory is still largely complete.

[1] The King Philip Mill complex is located in southern Fall River, on the northwest shore of Cook Pond.

Three of the large main mill buildings are built of locally quarried granite, with the 4-5 story Mills 1 and 2 joined by a picker house to form a structure with a unified facade 740 feet (230 m) in length; this is the longest such building in the city.

[5] Textile production ended on May 8, 1964,[6] and the complex was used by a variety of light industrial concerns.

[7] The 750,000 square foot mill property was bought by developer Robert Kfoury in 2018, with plans to builds single-family homes there.