The Old Slater Mill - Pawtucket, RI
N 41° 52.662 W 071° 22.953
19T E 302299 N 4638942
This historical marker is located at the Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Waymark Code: WM65T0
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 04/08/2009
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The marker text reads as follows:
"The birthplace of the cotton manufacturing industry in America. Here in 1793 Samuel Slater, Moses Brown, and William Almy established the first successful cotton factory in the United States."
The following additional information about the Slater Mill Historic Site is from Wikipedia (
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Slater Mill Historic Site, also known as Slater Mill or Old Slater Mill, is located on the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, RI. It is generally cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in America. It is modeled after a mill in England where Samuel Slater, the mill's founder, had been an employee. Moses Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, Brown family was one of the major owners of the Mill.
Slater Mill was built in 1793. It served as the first commercially viable cotton-spinning mill in the United States. It was used to convert raw cotton into cloth. Slater brought this new technology from England where he had learned it from Jedediah Strutt. Slater's design was based on Richard Arkwright's cotton spinning system which included carding, drawing, and spinning machines.
Slater Mill has the distinction of carrying the first, lowest reference number in the National Register of Historic Places reference number series, although many hundreds of other sites were listed on the NRHP before it. The site was further designated a National Historic Landmark on the same date in 1966.