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2. Slater Mill - Wikipedia

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   Slater Mill. /  41.87750°N 71.38250°W  / 41.87750; -71.38250. 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 ...

3. Conant Thread-Coats & Clark Mill Complex District - Wikipedia

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   Built. 1868. MPS. Pawtucket MRA. NRHP reference No. 83003809 [1] Added to NRHP. November 18, 1983. The Conant Thread—Coats & Clark Mill Complex District is a historic district encompassing a large industrial complex which straddles the border between Pawtucket and Central Falls, Rhode Island.

4. History of Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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   Rhode Island was the first colony in America to declare independence on May 4, 1776, a full two months before the United States Declaration of Independence. [11] Rhode Islanders had attacked the British warship HMS Gaspee in 1772 as one of the first acts of war leading to the American Revolution.

5. Pawtucket, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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   Pawtucket (/ p ə ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t / ⓘ pə-TUK-it) 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.

6. Jenckes Spinning Company - Wikipedia

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   Jenckes Spinning Company windows. The Jenckes Spinning Company is a historic textile factory complex in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Located on Conant and Weeden Streets, the complex was developed between 1883 and 1919, and was home to the city's largest employer in the 1910s, producing cotton fabric and fabric for use in automotive tires until 1933.

7. List of early settlers of Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Cornell (settler) Joseph Jenckes Jr., early settler of Pawtucket, Warwick, and Providence. Stephen Northup, built house that remains as one of oldest in the state. John Steere, early settler of Providence and Smithfield, Rhode Island. Pardon Tillinghast, early pastor of the First Baptist Church in America.