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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.
A map of the region. The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor is a National Heritage Corridor dedicated to the history of the early American Industrial Revolution, including mill towns stretching across 25 cities and towns (400,000 acres (1,620 km 2) in total) near the river's course in Worcester County, Massachusetts, and Providence County, Rhode Island.
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 centerpiece of this historic district is the Stanley Woolen Mill, also known as the Central Woolen Mill, built by Moses Taft in 1852, [2] and earlier by his father, Luke Taft, in 1833, on the banks of the Blackstone Canal. The district is the southern entrance to the Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park.
The Blackstone River and Valley is where the industrial revolution was born in America. The southern entrance to this state park is the site of the historic Stanley Woolen Mill, currently being redeveloped for commercial and tourism. The Native American Nipmuc name for the village here was "Wacentug", translated as "bend in the river".
The USS John P. Murtha, a 684-foot warship, is under the command of Capt. Ryan Billington, Cumberland native and son of Robert Billington, longtime president of the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council.
Today it is the home of the South Uxbridge Community Association. Ironstone and South Uxbridge are part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor of the National Park Service. The Blackstone Valley is the oldest industrialized region of the United States. The Ironstone section of the Town of Uxbridge has other alternate names ...
The Blackstone Valley National Historic Park [57] contains the 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2)Blackstone Canal Heritage State Park, [58] 9 miles (14 km) of the Blackstone River Greenway, [59] the Southern New England Trunkline Trail (which has the interesting SNETT stone chamber south of Lee pond), [60] West Hill Dam, a 567-acre wildlife refuge, [61 ...