The Blackstone River powered America's entry into the Age of Industry. The
success of Samuel Slater's cotton spinning mill in Pawtucket, RI touched off a
chain reaction that changed how people worked and where they lived. Learn how
this revolution transformed the landscape of the Blackstone Valley and the
United States. The Visitor Center at Old Slater Mill is currently open
Thursday-Sunday, 10-4.

The Blackstone River powered America's entry into the Age of Industry. The success of Samuel Slater's cotton spinning mill in Pawtucket, RI touched off a chain reaction that changed how people worked and where they lived. Learn how this revolution transformed the landscape of the Blackstone Valley and the United States. The Visitor Center at Old Slater Mill is currently open Thursday-Sunday, 10-4.

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Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

"I acknowledge that to molest any person, Jew or Gentile, for either
professing doctrine, or practicing worship meerly religious or spiritual, is
to persecute him, and such a person (whether his doctrine or practice be true
or false) suffers persecution for conscience." -Roger Williams, 1644 Banished
by the English and saved by the First Peoples, Roger Williams founded
Providence here in 1636.

"I acknowledge that to molest any person, Jew or Gentile, for either professing doctrine, or practicing worship meerly religious or spiritual, is to persecute him, and such a person (whether his doctrine or practice be true or false) suffers persecution for conscience." 
-Roger Williams, 1644

Banished by the English and saved by the First Peoples, Roger Williams founded Providence here in 1636.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park

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