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Woonsocket Historic district of downtown Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Woonsocket

Rhode Island, United States
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Woonsocket, city, Providence county, northern Rhode Island, U.S., on the Blackstone River just south of the Massachusetts border. The first European occupation of the site was made by Richard Arnold, who built a sawmill in 1666; his brother John built a house there in 1695. Waterpower brought industrial development: a cotton-spinning mill was built there about 1810, and the first plant for spinning and weaving wool was erected by Edward Harris in 1840. Many of...

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