Blackstone River

Blackstone River has been mentioned less than a dozen times throughout the RSS channels we monitor. This location appears to be especially popular on the channel 'Online Review of Rhode Island History' where it has less than a dozen mentions. As seen in the chart below, Blackstone River had the highest popularity figure in September, 2016.

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Top Ten Rhode Islanders from the Eighteenth Century

[...] , Providence Quaker businessman Moses Brown wanted to open a cotton mill next to the Blackstone River in Pawtucket. Not being sure how to proceed, he invited twenty-two-year-old Samuel [...]

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Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 5 to 1

[...] new cotton mill nearby at what is now Slater Mill, powered by water flowing from the Blackstone River. Slater’s machines produced the first cotton thread in August of 1793 and Slater Mill [...]

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The Birth of American Industry: Why Pawtucket?

[...] location for his forge? Whatever the answer, Jenks planted by the Pawtucket River (today’s Blackstone River), and began a tradition of ironworking that over time attracted some of America’s finest [...]

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Top Ten Turning Points in Rhode Island’s History

[...] Samuel Slater to establish a new textile mill powered by the running waters of the Blackstone River. Slater knew the technological secrets of cotton spinning machinery and managing [...]

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Exercise Bike Walmart Canada

[...] from Providence to Bristol along the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay, while the Blackstone River Bikeway will eventually link Providence and Worcester. … Read Article IDEA TABLE: [...]

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