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Title
Slater Mill Built 1793- First US Textile Mill
Description
Slater Mill Historic Site, also known as Slater Mill or Old Slater Mill, is located on the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, RI. Slater Mill was built in 1793. It served as the first commercially viable water-powered roller cotton-spinning mill in the United States. Others were built before it that demonstrated different power technologies before water became a viable idea in the manufacturing process. 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.
Creator
Chester Smolski
Date
1971-04-01
Rights
Rhode Island College
Format
Photograph
Photograph
Identifier
5446
Smolski Image Item Type Metadata
City
Pawtucket
Country
United States of America
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Architectural photography -- Rhode Island -- Pawtucket; Urban renewal -- Rhode Island -- Pawtucket; Historic buildings – Rhode Island -- Pawtucket; Space (Architecture) – Rhode Island -- Pawtucket;
Region
Rhode Island
Street Address
67-71 Roosevelt Ave.