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Main Menu. News. News. Entertainment. Lighter Side. Politics. ... A 1986 article in The Providence Journal traced the sandwich origins to Social Street, which earlier in the century was a French ...
The Jules Desurmont Worsted Company Mill is a historic mill at 84 Fairmount Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.The mill complex consists of three brick buildings, erected 1907-10 by Jules Desurmont, the owner of a textile firm in Tourcoing, a city in northern France, who had been drawn to Woonsocket by the promotional activities of Aram Pothier.
May 6, 1971 (From Steeple and Promenade Sts. in Providence to the Massachusetts border in North Smithfield: Initial listing extended from Providence, through Pawtucket, and as far north as Lincoln; a 1991 expansion (#91001536) extended it to the state line; the canal itself extended into Worcester County, Massachusetts, where it is the subject of separate listings.
The Philmont Worsted Company Mill is an historic mill building at 685 Social Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The large three-story brick building was erected in 1919 by Joseph and Theofile Guerin, Belgian investors brought to Woonsocket by the promotional activities of Mayor Aram Pothier. Unusually for the Guerins, the mill used the ...
The 30-unit rooming house at 233 High St. is one of four that remain in Woonsocket. In 1964, the city had 19 licensed rooming houses. Tenants tend to be single; Archambault says he’s had bad ...
Jenckesville was founded 1822 by Job and Luke Jenckes when they sold their interest in the Social Manufacturing Company and constructed Woonsocket's first stone mill at 96 Mill Street. Hamlet Village was founded 1815 by General Edward Carrington, a creator of the Blackstone Canal. Carrington built a textile mill near Hamlet Avenue and Davidson ...
The South Main Street Historic District is a residential historic district in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.It extends along South Main Street between Mason Street on one end and Andrews and Bradford Streets on the other, and includes properties on adjacent streets, principally Ballou and North Ballou Streets.
Union St.-Jean Baptiste d'Amerique Building, 1 Social St., Woonsocket, RI (1926) [46] Woonsocket Jr. High School, 357 Park Pl., Woonsocket, RI (1926–27) - Actually a very large addition to the 1913 high school.