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The following list of Rhode Island companies includes notable companies that are, or once were, headquartered in Rhode Island Companies based in Rhode Island. A. A. T ...
During 19th and 20th centuries, the manufacturing of jewelry and costume jewelry emerged as a dominant local industry. [5] [6] Jewelry manufacturing began in the Providence in 1794; by 1880 Rhode Island's jewelry industry accounted for more than one quarter of the nation's jewelry production. [7]
Long-awaited rules that will govern Rhode Island’s budding recreational cannabis market are finally coming, putting the state one step closer to issuing licenses for two dozen retail pot shops.
Transportation companies based in Rhode Island (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Companies based in Rhode Island" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Constellation to Supply Renewable Energy Certificates to Rhode Island Manufacturers Association Event Association's annual fund-raising gala "goes green." Donated RECs to help avoid nearly 55,000 ...
America's textile industry began along the Blackstone River with the Slater Mill at Pawtucket, Rhode Island. [2] In the first half of the 20th century, the region underwent a long period of deindustrialization as traditional manufacturing companies relocated to the Midwest, with textile and furniture manufacturing migrating to the South. In the ...
The Providence Jewelry Manufacturing Historic District is a predominantly industrial historic district in Providence, Rhode Island. It covers a roughly 19-acre (7.7 ha) area in the city's Jewelry District, just south of Downtown Providence. While the area began as a residential neighborhood, it emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...
The precursor to the Waltham-Lowell system was used in Rhode Island, where British immigrant Samuel Slater set up his first spinning mills in 1793 under the sponsorship of Moses Brown. Slater drew on his British mill experience to create a factory system called the "Rhode Island System", based on the customary patterns of family life in New ...