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2. Joseph Jenckes Jr. - Wikipedia

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   Forge and sawmill owner. Known for. Founder of Pawtucket. Joseph Jenckes Jr. ( baptized October 12, 1628 – January 4, 1717), also spelled Jencks and Jenks, was the founder of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where he erected a forge in 1671. After his mother and only sibling died in England, his father, Joseph Jenckes Sr., immigrated to New England.

3. David Wilkinson (machinist) - Wikipedia

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   David Wilkinson was born at Smithfield, Rhode Island in 1771, the son of Oziel Wilkinson, a skilled blacksmith who moved his family to Pawtucket in the 1780s. About 1784, his father, Oziel began making anchors in Pawtucket for the emerging shipbuilding industry. The shop was powered by water from the Blackstone River, and was located on the ...

4. 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.

5. Slater Park - Wikipedia

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   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 House, the oldest house in Pawtucket.

6. 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.

7. Pawtucket Public Library - Wikipedia

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   The Pawtucket Public Library, formerly known as the Deborah Cook Sayles Public Library, is located at 13 Summer Street in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Its main building, designed by Ralph Adams Cram and built in 1899–1902, and was a gift to the city from Pawtucket's first mayor, Frederic Clark Sayles , in memory of his recently deceased wife. [3]