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The Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District encompasses the "New City" or "High Rocks" area of Blackstone, Massachusetts, an industrial village associated with the Blackstone Manufacturing Company, which began operations in 1809. It includes an area roughly surrounding Butler, Canal, Church, County, Ives, Main, Mendon, Old Mendon ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 11.2 square miles (29 km 2), of which 10.9 square miles (28 km 2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2), or 2.94%, is water. The Blackstone River, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, [3] meanders west to southeast, on the south border of town.
The first permanent settlement was the Plymouth Colony (1620), and the second major settlement was the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Salem in 1629. Settlements that failed or were merged into other colonies included the failed Popham Colony (1607) on the coast of Maine, and the Wessagusset Colony (1622–23) in Weymouth, Massachusetts , whose ...
The Farnum's Gate Historic District is a historic district encompassing a neighborhood of Blackstone, Massachusetts, associated with the locally prominent Farnum family.The area, on Main Street roughly between Austin Street and the St. Paul's Bridge, includes a number of homes built in the 1840s by prominent local industrialists, during a period of prosperity in the Blackstone River valley. [2]
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.
The Thayer House is located in a rural area of northeastern Blackstone, on the southwest side of Farm Street, historically one of the main roads joining Woonsocket, Rhode Island and Mendon, Massachusetts (of which Blackstone was a part until the 19th century). The house is set back from the road, the street lined by a low retaining wall, with ...
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park is a National Park Service unit in the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.The park was created for the purpose of preserving, protecting, and interpreting the industrial heritage of the Blackstone River Valley and the urban, rural, and agricultural landscape of that region.
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 .