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FIPS code. 25-06015. GNIS feature ID. 0619477. Website. www.townofblackstone.org. Blackstone is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,208 at the 2020 census. [1] It is a part of the Providence metropolitan area.
The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor follows the Blackstone Valley from Worcester to Providence, Rhode Island.The corridor follows the course of the Industrial Revolution in America from its origin at the Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island as it first spread north along the valley to Worcester, Massachusetts, and then to the rest of the nation.
Route 122 roughly bisects that town, crossing the Blackstone River again in the northern end of town. From Northbridge, Route 122 enters the Worcester suburb of Grafton. In the Farnumsville section of town, Route 122A begins, splitting from its parent route and heading west into Sutton. Route 122, meanwhile, continues north, crossing through ...
Massachusetts Route 122A. Route 122A is a 26.85-mile-long (43.21 km) southeast-northwest state highway in Massachusetts, in the United States. It is an alternate route of Massachusetts Route 122, with a mile-long concurrency with its parent route in downtown Worcester.
Rhode Island Route 122. Route 122 is a numbered state highway running 14.2 miles (22.9 km) in Rhode Island, United States. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Pawtucket, and its northern terminus is at the Massachusetts border where it continues as Massachusetts Route 122.
September 6, 1995. The East Blackstone Village Historic District is a historic district roughly along Elm Street at the junction with Summer Street in eastern Blackstone, Massachusetts. It encompasses a small 19th-century mill village center that developed along what was once a major roadway connecting Worcester with Providence, Rhode Island.
The Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park is a part of the state park system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). [2] This 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) park "recalls the role of canals in transporting raw materials and manufactured goods between emerging industrial ...
The Blackstone Canal was a manmade waterway, linking Worcester, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island, and Narragansett Bay, through the Blackstone Valley, via a series of locks and canals in the early 19th century. Construction started in 1825, and the canal opened three years later.