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    Arkwright is a village in the northeastern corner of Coventry, Rhode Island touching Cranston and Scituate, now connected by Route 115. In the 1700s the...
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    Arkwright Bridge is an abandoned historic bridge formerly carrying Hill Street over the Pawtuxet River in the Arkwright mill village in central Rhode...
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    this and equates Arkham with Salem, with its name coming from Arkwright, Rhode Island (now part of Fiskville). August Derleth describes Arkham as "Lovecraft's...
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    Coventry is a town in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 35,688 at the 2020 census and is part of the Pawtuxet River Valley  [Wikidata]...
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    Pawtucket (/pəˈtʌkɪt/ puh-TUK-it) is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest...
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    Historic Places in Rhode Island. As of May 29, 2015, there are more than 750 listed sites in Rhode Island. All 5 of the counties in Rhode Island have listings...
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    New England cotton merchants, who opened Interlaken Mills, in Arkwright, Rhode Island with the express intent of supplying bookcloth to the local printing...
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    Slater Mill (category 1793 establishments in Rhode Island)
    spinning mill in America to utilize the Arkwright system of cotton spinning as developed by Richard Arkwright. The mill's founder, British immigrant Samuel...
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    U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2020 census, the population was 170,363, making it the second-most populous county in Rhode Island. The county was...
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    C. R. Makepeace & Company (category Architecture firms based in Rhode Island)
    Rhode Island 1935 - Arkwright-Interlaken Mills Addition, 538 Main St, Arkwright, Rhode Island 1936 - Ward Building and Laundry, 7 Fleming Rd, Rhode Island...
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  • village in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States, located in the town of Coventry between the villages of Anthony and Arkwright. The area was named after...
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    1922 New England Textile Strike (category Labor disputes in Rhode Island)
    principally in the U.S. states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Throughout the duration of the strike, an estimated 68,000–85,000 workers...
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    Interlaken Mill Bridge (category Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island)
    Pawtuxet River at the site of the former Arkwright and Interlaken mill complexes in Coventry, Rhode Island. The lenticular pony truss bridge was built...
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    Samuel Slater (category People from Pawtucket, Rhode Island)
    farms and company towns around his textile mills, such as Slatersville, Rhode Island. Slater was born in Belper, Derbyshire, England, to William and Elizabeth...
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    James DeWolf (category People from Bristol, Rhode Island)
    consortium that formed the Arkwright Manufacturing Company in 1809. The company built the Arkwright Mills in Coventry, Rhode Island in 1810. The textile mills...
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    (formerly known as Harrisville) is a village near the town of Coventry, Rhode Island on the north branch of the Pawtuxet River near West Warwick. The village...
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  • George James Adams (category Businesspeople from Providence, Rhode Island)
    from Rhode Island. He purchased the freedom of Bethany Veney and her son, Joe, in 1858, and moved them north from Virginia to Providence, Rhode Island. Adams...
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    frame is credited to John Thorp in Rhode Island in 1828/9 and developed by Mr. Jencks of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, who (Marsden 1884) names as the inventor...
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    David Melville (inventor) (category People from Newport, Rhode Island)
    Wenscott Manufacturing Co.'s factory near Providence, Rhode Island. A later installation, at the Arkwright Mill near Providence exploded, destroying a small...
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    and later spread so that by 1788 there were over 200 Arkwright-type mills in Britain. Arkwright's inventions and system of organising labour was exported...
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    Strutt, took the secrets of Arkwright's machines to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA, where he founded a cotton industry. Arkwright's success led to his patents...
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    FM Global) is an American mutual insurance company based in Johnston, Rhode Island, United States, with offices worldwide, that specializes in loss prevention...
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    National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence County, Rhode Island. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts...
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    profitable, becoming the ancestors of the cotton mills that followed. Richard Arkwright obtained a patent for his water frame spinning machinery in 1769. Although...
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  • Rhode Island, which has been transferred from and is an integral part of National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Rhode Island  ...
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    of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Rhode Island. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts...
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  • This is a list of Registered Historic Places in Cranston, Rhode Island.           This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings...
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  • tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML...
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    called a doffer may do this task. Some people have given credit to Richard Arkwright for inventing the doffer, which was incorporated in his machine, but others...
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    known is Arkwright. He is credited with a list of inventions, but these were actually developed by such people as Kay and Thomas Highs; Arkwright nurtured...
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