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An elderly woman died in the fire. Trying to determine the cause, investigators were concentrating on a first-floor apartment, according to Chief Deputy James Given of the Fire Marshals Office.
The Slater Mill is a historic water-powered textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, modeled after cotton spinning mills first established in England. It is the first water-powered cotton spinning mill in America to use the Arkwright system of cotton spinning as developed by Richard Arkwright .
The Coats Mill was for many years Pawtucket’s largest employer, the labor force growing from 550 employees in 1870, to 1,500 in 1877, up to 2,500 employees in 1910. [3] At the peak of the plant’s capacity in the 1940s, there were 4,000 employees.
Pawtucket (/ p ə ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t / ⓘ puh-TUK-it [5]) is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest in the state. Pawtucket borders Providence and East Providence to the south, Central Falls and Lincoln to the north, and North Providence to the west.
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — Crews knocked down a fire in Pawtucket on Thursday morning after an abandoned RV went up in flames in the area of Tim Healey Way.
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Slater Mill in Pawtucket, along the Blackstone River. In 1790, Samuel Slater opened the first successful water-powered cotton mill in America: Slater Mill, at Pawtucket Falls. This mill was powered by the waters of the Blackstone River.
Samuel Slater, an English industrialist, constructed his first textile mill in Pawtucket, in 1793, along the Blackstone River. In addition to utilizing advanced new technology he had learned about in England, which had previously never been used in an American mill, Slater implemented an innovative management style that helped his factory find significant success.