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    Blackstone is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,208 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the Providence metropolitan...
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    The Blackstone Valley or Blackstone River Valley is a region of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It was a major factor in the American Industrial Revolution...
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  • Look up Blackstone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blackstone may refer to: Charles Blackstone (born 1977), fiction writer Elliott Blackstone (1924–2006)...
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    in 1662, and officially incorporated in 1916 by division from Blackstone, Massachusetts (which had itself originally been part of Mendon). This region...
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    The Blackstone River in the United States is a river that flows through Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It is 48 mi (77 km) long with a drainage area...
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    Town of Millbury, is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Located within Blackstone Valley, the population in Millbury was 13,831 at...
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    2007. "Stone Arch Bridge across Blackstone Canal in Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park. Uxbridge, Massachusetts, October 10, 2004". Asgreev Photos...
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    Blackstone Canal was a manmade waterway, linking Worcester, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island, and Narragansett Bay, through the Blackstone Valley...
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    holdings in real estate. Blackstone, Massachusetts Blackstone River Blackstone Canal Blackstone Street in Boston Blackstone Boulevard, Providence In 2021...
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  • HS (Wrentham, Massachusetts) 97.438 Blackstone-Millville HS (Blackstone, Massachusetts) 97.425 Dartmouth HS (Dartmouth, Massachusetts) 97.063 Trumbull...
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    located at 7 Main Street in Whitinsville. The town is now a part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, of the National Park Service...
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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...
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    Massachusetts (/ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts/ , /-zɪts/ MASS-ə-CHOO-sits, -⁠zits; Massachusett: Muhsachuweesut [məhswatʃəwiːsət]), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
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    the course of the East Coast Greenway through the Blackstone Valley from Worcester, Massachusetts to Providence, Rhode Island in the United States. As...
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  • Webster Thayer (category People from Blackstone, Massachusetts)
    Superior Court of Massachusetts, best known as the trial judge in the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Thayer was born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, on July 7, 1857...
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    Chaffee Blackstone River Valley National Historic Corridor Commission to receive this designation. Hopedale is the only other Massachusetts mill village...
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  • Matthew Dicks (category People from Blackstone, Massachusetts)
    2019, 2020, and 2021. Dicks was raised in the small town of Blackstone, Massachusetts. At age 16, he began working for McDonald's restaurants. At 17...
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    "Smithfield Monthly Meeting") is a historic Quaker meetinghouse in Blackstone, Massachusetts. The small single-story wood-frame structure was built in 1812...
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    The Blackstone Viaduct, or the New York & New England Railroad Viaduct is a historic viaduct in Blackstone, Massachusetts. The viaduct was built in 1872...
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    Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,357 in the 2020 United States Census. Located in the Blackstone Valley, the town was...
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    industrialization of the Blackstone Valley. Its Northeast Village was once known as "New England Village". The following is an excerpt from the Blackstone Daily about...
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    includes the nearby source of the Charles River, the Mill River, the Blackstone River watershed, and large quantities of Milford pink granite. Milford...
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    in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,228 at the 2020 census. Mendon is part of the Blackstone River Valley National...
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    The Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District encompasses the "New City" or "High Rocks" area of Blackstone, Massachusetts, an industrial village...
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    Worcester developed as an industrial city in the 19th century because the Blackstone Canal and railways facilitated the import of raw materials and the export...
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    region of Worcester County. The Blackstone River was once called the Nipmuc River. Most of Douglas is part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage...
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  • Blackstone-Millville Regional High School is a high school in Blackstone, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, operating as part of the Blackstone-Millville...
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  • Taft, as a young boy, spent a number of summers in the Blackstone Valley in Millbury, Massachusetts, and even attended schools for at least a term in that...
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    south end of Hopedale in 1664. A 64-square-mile (170 km2) area of the Blackstone Valley was incorporated as the town of Mendon. In 1780, Milford separated...
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  • Perley Dunn Aldrich (category People from Blackstone, Massachusetts)
    composer and conductor. He was born on November 6, 1863, in Blackstone, Massachusetts. He married Jennie L. Lamson in 1887. He died on November 20,...
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