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June 30, 1976. The Looff Carousel. Slater Park is the oldest and largest public park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The park is named after Samuel Slater, a famous American industrialist who constructed America's first water-powered textile mill in Pawtucket. The park lies on the banks of the beautiful Ten Mile River and features the 1685 Daggett ...
Daggett House. / 41.888667°N 71.344056°W / 41.888667; -71.344056. The Daggett House is an historic house in Slater Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The house is the oldest standing house in Pawtucket and one of the oldest surviving buildings in the state.
Pawtucket (/ p ə ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t / ⓘ puh-TUK-it [5]) is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest in the state. Pawtucket borders Providence and East Providence to the south, Central Falls and Lincoln to the north, and North Providence to the west.
The 25th annual Pawtucket Winter Wonderland, Rhode Island's largest Christmas display and festival, is ready at Slater Park. Spread over 30 acres, the display will include 650 decorated Christmas ...
There are 434 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Providence County, including 15 National Historic Landmarks. The city of Pawtucket is the location of 57 these properties and districts, including 1 National Historic Landmark; they are listed here. Properties and districts located in the county's other municipalities are ...
Samuel Slater, an English industrialist, constructed his first textile mill in Pawtucket, in 1793, along the Blackstone River. In addition to utilizing advanced new technology he had learned about in England, which had previously never been used in an American mill, Slater implemented an innovative management style that helped his factory find significant success.
The Slater Mill is a historic water-powered textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, modeled after cotton spinning mills first established in England. It is the first water-powered cotton spinning mill in America to utilize the Arkwright system of cotton spinning as developed by Richard Arkwright.
Early in Slater Park 's development, a small collection of animals was put on display just across from the Daggett House. In 1916, this miniature zoo housed only pigeons, rabbits, and deer which roamed in a fenced run. A small herd of elk were in residence by 1936 but not until the late 1950s were any really exotic animals added to the park's ...