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  2. Pontiac Mills - Wikipedia

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    The current mills were built beginning in 1863 by Robert Knight and Benjamin Knight (B.B. & R. Knight Company) to replace a smaller textile mill they had acquired from US Senator John Hopkins Clarke. Robert Knight, formerly a clerk at the mill's company store, had begun leasing the mill upon Clarke's election to the US senate in 1846, before ...

  3. Dewey Cottage - Wikipedia

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    Dewey Cottage is a historic house in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. The cottage, now operated as the Admiral Dewey Inn, was built in 1898 in a late-Victorian style and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

  4. Benjamin Knight - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, on October 3, 1813, to Stephen Knight and Weltham Brayton. [1] Knight worked on the family farm until he was 18 and went to work at Sprague Print Works in Cranston. In 1835, he opened a general grocery store near the print works before returning to farming.

  5. Royal Mill Complex - Wikipedia

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    In 1885, the site was purchased by B.B.& R. Knight Co., one of the largest textile companies in Rhode Island at the time, who marketed their cloth under the Fruit of the Loom label. In 1890, the Knight Company razed the three old mills and built the Royal Mill from local granite. The building was designed by mill engineer David M. Thompson. The ...

  6. Valley Queen Mill - Wikipedia

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    The Valley Queen Mill is an historic mill at 200 Providence Street in West Warwick, Rhode Island. It is a five-story L-shaped stone building built in 1834 by the Greene Company. [2] The mill is the oldest of the three mill buildings in the area. It originally operated as a cotton factory, producing coarse cotton cloths under the Greene Company ...

  7. River Point, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    River Point in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, is a community made up of mill houses and three mills - the Valley Queen Mill, the Royal Mill and the Cotton Shed. Built in 1834 by the Greene Company, the Valley Queen Mill is the oldest of the three buildings.

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